On World Environment Day, the University of the West Indies (UWI) hosted a teleconference under the theme ‘COVID and the environment: For better or for worse?’ to discuss linkages between COVID-19 and the #environment.

The event brought together Caribbean stakeholders, among them academics and representatives from the private sector.

Dr Lawrence Lewis, Dean of the University of Guyana’s Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, has been declared a national winner of the 2020 ENERGY GLOBE Award. #GY

A new faculty – aimed at bolstering the national and regional capacity in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) – is being developed at the University of Aruba (UA), in Oranjestad, through support from the European Union (EU), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven), in Belgium. #AW

Chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission and Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Sir Hilary Beckles, has once again called on Britain to come back to the table to discuss reparatory justice for the #Caribbean #economy.

The Oversight Board certified a fiscal plan for the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) that freezes tuition fees for one-year but insists on changes at the UPR management level that has been resisted for years. #PR

The inequality of access, unreliability of technology and a lack of a strategy to help teachers use online platforms well has made home learning “an imperfect substitute to school-based provision”, according to a new report by Cayman’s Office of Education Standards. #Tech #KY

The University of Guyana’s Council today announced that the year-long search for the Institution’s 11th Vice Chancellor has ended and that the successful Candidate is Professor Paloma Mohamed-Martin, PhD, the first woman to be named Vice Chancellor in the 57-year history of the University of Guyana.

The University of the West Indies (UWI), St Augustine, has appointed the first female Professor of Science, Professor Judith Gobin — Head of the Department of Life Sciences, the largest Department in the Faculty of Science and Technology. #TT

Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor of The UWI, President of Universities Caribbean, & Chairman of the CARICOM Reparations Commission has issued a statement on George Floyd’s Killing.

The Mico University College students’ COVID-19 relief programme aims to assist students at the institution affected by the pandemic, targets US$1-million (J$143-million). #JM