The Life Long Learning Unit of the University of the West Indies Five Islands Campus, held another graduation ceremony on Thursday with a total of 432 persons receiving certificates for successfully completing their courses of study.
Hundreds of persons, including the Governor General, Sir Rodney Williams, officials of the university, graduates, family and friends, were in attendance at the ceremony held at the campus’s Assembly Hall.
Head of the LLLU, Paula Lee, said she is proud that the hunger for continued development and training has gripped Antigua and Barbuda and that this is reflected in the increased number of graduates who receive certificates at these ceremonies.
Sir Rodney presented certificates to the awardees who were all top students in the individual courses.
The top performing student was Mrs. Nickishia Carr-Ramkellawan. She is an employee at CARDI. She undertook four courses and had the highest average. Her employer is said to be very supportive toward her learning and development pursuits.
This year, the feature address was delivered by UWI FIC Campus Registrar, Dr. Camille Samuel, who underscored the value of listening. “As you move through this world from wherever you are, you must listen, you must respect the voices of others, even if their positions are not at the time well understood, you must move with purpose and relevance and you must lift others.
“You need only look around our region to see where failure to act in this way escalates chaos,” she observed.
With their new skills and certification, Registrar Samuel stated that the university had armed the graduates for the world that lies ahead. “So, we have armed you to do more and to be a positive force in this world. You have come to us with a natural instinct to want more and to know more. We now expect that you too will use the shared knowledge to expand your potential and the potential of others,” she remarked.
Among the graduating class, were eleven inmates from His Majesty’s Prison who participated in the Prison’s Seeds of Hope Programme. They all received scholarships to undertake the programme.
Already, the LLLU is announcing that its programme for next year has been published and it is encouraging those who are desirous of attaining new skills to sign up as soon as possible.
