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Eating Caribbean Fruits! The research has been done! Caribbean fruits in many cases are much more vitamin-enriched and contain more minerals than their foreign equivalents. Make becoming healthy fun. Skip the supplements and eat Caribbean fruits on a daily basis. Check out this video to affirm the facts and let’s share some fruits with a […]

A study on the effects of poor eating habits on student learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGZ0V6tGUw0 Recent studies have demonstrated that nutrition affects students’ thinking skills, behaviour, and health, all factors that directly impact academic performance. Poor nutrition can leave students’ susceptible to illness or lead to headaches and stomachaches, resulting in school absences (Brown, Beardslee, & Prothrow-Stith,

Sapotee Soil – A Call to Memory by Joanne Haynes ‘Come with me, on a Journey of Possibility, as we travel the Sapotee Soil’ Winner of the Derek Walcott Literature Prize. Cover and Illustrations by Ka’en Haynes. Modernizing legends and legendizing history, this collection of stories and essays reminds and connects with the universal appeal

Series I – Redesigning Education Conversations Around Educational Leadership (Video) CARICOM Secretariat in collaboration with the CDB and the Commonwealth Secretariat collaborated to convene Series I- Redesigning Education: Conversations Around Educational Leadership. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKuI_pQ23q8&t=239s

Local Habitation and Name: Caribbean Interpretation of Shakespeare Deborah as an author has launched her most recent book – Local Habitation and Name: Caribbean Interpretation of Shakespeare. This book explores the seeing of Shakespeare through Caribbean lens as part of the dynamic post-colonial process of re-reading. Deborah creates ‘local’ Shakespeare with her Caribbean perspective, and

CVE Launch – Feature Address by Dr. Heather Cateau. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgohx5zRop0 Dr. Heather Cateau’s Feature Address. Were you part of our launch? Were you part of making history with us? Here’s just a little preview of what you missed as we listen to the dynamic, riveting and timely feature address by Dr. Heather Cateau which certainly

Westmin James – Youngest Judge on the Caribbean Community Administrative Tribunal Westmin James is an attorney-at-law, university lecturer and author, who was recently appointed as the youngest judge on the Caribbean Community Administrative Tribunal. After living in less than comfortable accommodation as a child, this thirty-nine year old product of Laventille believes that there is

Educating for Development – by Dr. Vanus James Self-sustaining growth of T&T (and any other Caribbean economy) requires economic restructuring and a growing capacity to compete. This can be achieved by pivoting towards the domestic industries that produce and make intensive use of knowledge, skills, and favourable worker attitudes. Targets are education, healthcare, the creative

Will 11+ selection and placement always be part of our future? The School of Education of the University of the West Indies invites you to a virtual symposium entitled: “Will 11+ selection and placement always be part of our future?” Featured Presentations: • Dr. Heather Cateau Managing complex issues in a changing society: The role