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Daviesha Hall (left) and Sasheena Walker grab the attention of RIU Montego Bay's Assistant General Manager Felix Cepeda. - Janet Silvera Photo
From left: Dr Swithin Wilmot, dean, Faculty of Humanities and Education; Sharon Fflokes-Abraham, attorney; Dr Canute James, director of CARIMAC; and Winsome Stewart pose for the camera.
Latoya 'Blackdolly' Clarke gets the attention of her lecturer, Patrick Prendegast, head of CARIMAC, UWI, Mona, Western Jamaica Campus, during a cocktail reception at RIU Montego Bay last Tuesday night in honour of Florida State University Professor Stephen McDowell, who gave a lecture 'New Media and Social Change' at the university earlier that evening.
Dr Aggrey Brown (centre), professor emeritus, CARIMAC, is flanked by The Gleaner's assignmetn coordinator Nagra Plunkett (left) and communication consultant Suzette Brown.
Andrew Anguin and Mona-Dean Supria pose for Outlook.
Dancing to the CARIMAC beat (from left) Mona-Dean Supria, Tomeica Gunn, Shade Reid, Latoya Clarke and Kaydian Harty.- Photos by Janet Silvera
Florida State University Professor Stephen McDowell converses with lecturer of management, information systems, UWI Mona, Western Jamaica Campus, Dr Sheryl Thompson (right), and Keresha Larmond, senior secretary, Office of Student Services.
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Janet Silvera, Senior Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: In the final year of the public relations degree, a public lecture was the send-off gift that CARIMAC students of the University of the West Indies, Mona, Western Jamaica Campus (WJC), gave last Tuesday.

In collaboration with their lecturer and CARIMAC WJC coordinator, Patrick Prendergast, they launched the first in a series of lectures with Florida State University Professor of Communication, Stephen McDowell, who made a quick visit into the island to address the issue of 'New Media and Social and Economic Change: From Possibilities to Practices'.

Prendergast tells Outlook, "Now more than ever, universities have an obligation to provide opportunities for meaningful dialogue and engagement with the communities they serve."

He hopes this lecture at the three-year-old campus will be the launching pad for a more deliberate and strategic connection between the University of the West Indies and the peoples of the western region.

Dr Swithin Wilmot, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education (FHE), in endorsing the event, congratulated CARIMAC on taking the initiative and emphasised the timeliness of the topic, especially in the context of the role being played by new media in changing the course of history as recently seen in the United States of America and parts of the Middle East.

The lecture, which was chaired by publisher Lloyd B. Smith, was complemented with a cocktail reception sponsored and hosted by RIU Montego Bay.

Among those in the audience were Dr Canute James, CARIMAC director; Michael Williams, campus director; and Professor Aggrey Brown, former dean of FHE, the Jamaica Tourist Board's Norma Taylor, Cheryl Atkinson, Winsome Stewart, Suzette Brown, Nagra Plunkett, Sharon Ffolkes-Abraham, Joe Hylton and daughters Jodi and Marie.

See more Photos on Page 16.

janet.silvera@gleanerjm.com