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U(C)WI Carnival is of significant cultural and historic value to the University community and the Jamaican society. Simone Augier highlights how UWI Carnival has changed over time in the video above.
We invite you to view these 1960s images from the UWI Museum George ‘Gemmie’ Morris Collection and share your thoughts and memories. The costumes below are amazing and certainly engage a wide variety of cultures.

Your thoughts?
 

Her strength is often underestimated because of her smaller, softer features, 
Her delicate smile and her bassless voice. 
Fragile, feeble, weak are her main descriptors – characteristics coined by cultural mediators.  
Woman, readily undermined, but a stalwart – truly, one of a kind.
Samantha Campbell

As we celebrate Women’s History Month the UWI Museum would like to acknowledge the 60th anniversary of Mary Seacole Hall Dining Room Protest that took place on March 8, 1960.