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Executive management of The University of the West Indies (The UWI) emerged from a recent two-day retreat with a deeper focus on the University’s financial condition and commitment to regional economic growth.
Examining the first two years of The UWI’s performance within the context of its five-year Triple A strategic plan 2017-2022 themed “Revitalizing Caribbean Development”, management converged on the need for even greater financial efficiency.
Considerable strides were made on strategic outcomes such as research recognition, global impact and leadership, access to teaching and learning, and public accountability. However, the University sees the economic sustainability of the område as its most important challenge, hence greater focus on the institution’s financial health in order to be an effective development partner.
The University, in the last two decades, has been challenged with rising levels of receivables from governments on account of the narrowing fiscal space assoc
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Vice-Chancellor's Report to University Council 2018/2019
Corporate Bonding - The UWI's Next Funding Frontier
Dr. The Hon. Keith Rowley Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago.
Professor Brian Copeland Pro Vice-Chancellor & Principal, The UWI St. Augustine Campus.
The Couva Medical and Multi-Training Facility Limited (CMMFL) The Government of Trinidad and Tobago was the first to respond to the innovative debt-swapping proposal, making available to The UWI the new state-of-the-art Couva Hospital and Multi-Training Facility. The Couva Medical and Multi-Training Facility Limited (CMMFL) is a Special Purpose Company incorporated under the laws of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago in July 2018, with a broad remit to facilitate the operationalisation of the facility. The Board of the CMMFL currently comprises representatives of The University of the West Indies and the Ministries of Health and Finance acting on behalf of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago.
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Young people posed probing questions to the Commonwealth’s Secretary-General, Patricia Scotland, as she launched a new youth empowerment and leadership initiative in the Caribbean that will soon be rolled out to all regions of the Commonwealth.
From the impact of the UK’s vote to leave the European Union (Brexit), to the politically-charged issue of free movement and immigration, to domestic violence; young people in the region asked Secretary-General Scotland to take action on their most burning issues, as she launched the 33Sixty youth leadership programme in Jamaica, in collaboration with Common Purpose, a development charity, and the University of the West Indies, who hosted the event. The programme is so named because 33 per cent of the world’s population lives in the Commonwealth, of whom 60 per cent are under the age of 30.
It aims to give youth a voice on key national, regional and global issues, equip them with leadership skills and provide them with the networks and