UWI Deputy Principal to receive CARICOM Triennial Award for Women

Dr Violet Eudine Barriteau

CARICOM is bestowing its 10th Caribbean Community Triennial Award for Women on UWI Deputy Principal and gender professor Dr Violet Eudine Barriteau.

In a press release, the CARICOM Secretariat said the award is being given in recognition of Dr Barriteau’s “remarkable contribution to the field of gender and development” and her role as “a powerful exemplar of self-respect, self-discipline, vision and leadership.”

CARICOM’s acting Secretary-General Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite, who made the announcement at last Friday’s Media Clinic ahead of the 32nd regular Conference of