Antiguan Calypso icon Sir McClean ‘King Short Shirt’ Emanuel will be the country’s lone recipient of an honorary degree from the UWI Five Islands campus, as part of the wider UWI’s upcoming Class of 2023 graduation ceremonies, starting next month.
The announcement came on Saturday afternoon in a media statement from the UWI, in which it was revealed that King Short Shirt is part of a notable list of recipients from the entertainment sector across the four landed campuses.
Soca star Alison Hinds is set to be honoured by the Cave Hill campus, Trinidad & Tobago-born R&B singer/actress Heather Headley by the St Augustine campus and Jamaican reggae legend Beres Hammond by the Mona campus.
The other honourees are Ian Hickling and Trisha Tannis at Cave Hill, Baroness Floella Benjamin and Lawrence Scott at St Augustine, Professor E. Dale Abel, Lascelles Chin (posthumous), Rachel Manley and Ambassador Audrey Marks at Mona, and Dr Patrick Anthony and Dame Janet Gwennett Bostwick at the Global Campus.
The annual tradition of conferring honorary degrees, the statement said, will “commemorate the outstanding contributions made by these individuals to their communities and the wider society”. It also coincides this year with the UWI’s 75th jubilee celebrations. Read More
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