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Henry Fraser

A life in Medicine and The Arts – an Autobiography 

Henry Fraser

 is Professor of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology, Dean of the School of Clinical Medicine and Research, and Director of the Chronic Disease Research Centre, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados.

Henry Fraser’s

Jamaican Ceramics

A Historical and Contemporary Survey By Norma Rodney Harrack 

Norma Rodney Harrack

is a ceramic artist, lecturer and writer. She is a graduate of the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts and the University of the West Indies (Mona) and is recognised as one of the most outstanding ceramic artists out of Jamaica. Harrack recalls having a very happy childhood, filled with vivid memories of loving, dedicated parents and six siblings. 

NORMA RODNEY HARRACK 

Trinidad's Alyssa Mohammed and Jamaica's David Salmon named 2023 Rhodes Scholar

Alyssa Mohammed

is a "Pelican Soaring" being the top 2023 Rhode Scholar from the Commonwealth Caribbean. On November 8th it was announced that she outperformed the other 10 candidates hailing from Barbados, Grenada, Antigua, St Lucia and Trinidad and Tobago. 

In 2020, for the first time in their history, many educational institutions, including the UWI, were forced to take graduation ceremonies to online platforms or have students collect their certificates via a drive-through format. Had someone told us that such a momentous occasion as graduation could be resorted to a fast food pickup style, many of us would probably laugh but in reality, the pandemic has brought about a lot of unimaginable practices.