Appointment of Council Chairman for The UWI Open Campus

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Ambassador Soomer has several publications to her name, including “The Social Pillar of Integration”, in Caricom Perspective 1992-1993 issues; “Cricket and the Politics of Integration” in Liberation Cricket: W.I. Cricket Culture; “Perceptions of Risk Factors Related to Cancer, Venereal diseases and AIDS among Barbadian Women” as joint author with Dr. Funmilayo Jones (forthcoming) ; “Comparison of Non-Governmental Organization’s Submissions and Positions on Regional Issues with those included in The Report of the West Indian Commission, Time for Action” for the Caribbean network for Integrated Rural Development, 1992;”Cricket and the Origins of Federation Organization”. An Area of Conquest: Popular Democracy and West Indies Cricket Supremacy for Ian Randle Publishers in 1994 edited by H. Beckles; “The Politics of John Compton: Its Impact on the Political Future of St. Lucia”  in a joint paper with Cynthia Barrow Giles in the Bulletin of Eastern Caribbean Affairs for ISER in 1996; “Runaway Slave Women in the Windward Islands” in Slave Women in the Americas, by NC University Press in 1997; The Manipulation of the Production and Reproduction of African Women in the Caribbean during Slavery, in Negro History Bulletin, Vol. 63, Issue 1-4; and “The Magna Carta and the Notion of Rights in Post Slavery, Post-Independence Caribbean Countries” , which is a forthcoming publication.

She has also made several academic presentations in the region and globally, dealing with historical, socio-economic and gender-related issues. Some of these include  The Magna Carta and the Notion of Rights in Post Slavery, Post-Independence Caribbean Countries at the Magna Carta Lecture Series held in St. Lucia in February 2015; “Stiff-backed Spines:” The Militancy, Defiance and Plain Speaking of Enslaved Women in Saint Lucia and the Caribbean at The UWI Open Campus St. Lucia Open Campus Country Conference in June 2015; and The Relevance of Arthur Lewis to the Contemporary Challenges facing Small Island Developing States, in Durban, South Africa in 2015.

Published May 3, 2017

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