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MOTTLEY - New Realities for Forging a Nation by Carol Williams
One week after she spearheaded Barbados’s transition to a republic, Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley credited The UWI, Cave Hill Campus for its contribution to cementing Caribbean identity and providing a platform for intellectual thought and leadership to flourish.
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he Barbadian leader indicated the campus contributed to her intellectual development as she had visited in her formative years to listen to scholarly discussions and presentations that featured a multitude of perspectives from people across the region. In her speech entitled, “Forging A Nation: Confronting New Realities”, Prime Minister Mottley singled out notable Caribbean personalities, including Grenadian-born academic Patrick Emmanuel in whose honour she was speaking, as being among the trailblazers of Caribbean nation-building. The message by the first female prime minister of Barbados was delivered during the 16th Patrick
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Emmanuel Memorial Lecture held virtually on 8 December 2021, and centred on hope, ambition, and trust. She said although the transition that took place on 30 November 2021 was ‘a golden moment’, the business of nation-building was not a one-off, but rather, an inter- and intra-generational process of
