CaribWorldNews, KINGSTON, Jamaica, Fri. May 2, 2008: A record sixteen individuals are set to be conferred with honorary doctorates at the UWI graduation ceremonies in October and November this year.

Among the honorees will be England’s first female Attorney General, Baroness Patricia Scotland, President and CEO of one of the largest financial institutions in the region, Sagicor Financial Corporation, Dodridge Miller; Jamaican/Canadian entrepreneur extraordinaire, Michael Lee-Chin and Trinidadian calypsonian, Leroy Calliste, the Trinidadian calypsonian known as Black Stalin,

Others include Angela Cropper, an environmentalist and Professor Kari Polanyi Levitt, an economist and scholar; Kynaston McShine, Trinidadian curator and art historian; Bahamian public servant and statesman, Arthur D. Hanna; The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, King of Ghana; Barbadian physicist, Dr Cardinal Warde; Sir Peter Moores, visual arts educator and philanthropist; Havelock Brewster, Dame Karlene C. Davis, the Hon Gilbert Passos Gil Moreira, Douglas Orane and Roderick Rainford.