The record of West Indies international cricket is extraordinary. At one time they dominated all three formats of international cricket and seemed invincible.
Then it all fell apart and the collapse of such a great cricketing nation has been considered a mystery in the annals of modern sport and popular performance culture.
The British Foundation for the University of the West Indies is pleased to announce a fundraising concert on 11 April 2017
In celebration of its strong ties with Commonwealth countries through shared common law tradition, Inner Temple joins BFUWI in celebrating over 50 years of Caribbean nationhood.
Following on the tremendous success of last year’s event, Inner Temple is once again sponsoring BFUWI’s Careers in Law workshop. The workshop features a number of well-known lawyers from the Caribbean diaspora and beyond. Once again, lawyers enthusiastically responded to the approach to speak at this event which aims to provide our young students with information about how to get into the legal profession and the range of opportunities and options which are available.
'The economics of Black freedom, reparation and anti-colonial development'
Article and photographs by David F. Roberts / Twitter: @DavidFRoberts1 of CaribDirect, our multimedia partners www.caribdirect.com
BFUWI and the Ramphal Institute, King's College, are pleased to announce a lecture by Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies to mark the centenary of the birth of Sir Arthur Lewis. Sir Arthur was a distinguished son of the Caribbean who was born in Saint Lucia in 1915. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for economics in 1979 and had a long and distinguished career which included serving as Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies.
Careers in Law: Global Options, Local Opportunities 2015
‘Careers in Law: Global Options, Local Opportunities’ is a Legal Workshop for international and local secondary school (aged 16 and over), college and university level students from multi-cultural backgrounds. Following on the success of the BFUWI workshop at Inner Temple in June, Coventry University has approached BFUWI and asked them to replicate the event for students from the Midlands.
It is designed to:
