UWI awarding honorary degree to Observer columnist John Maxw

[Dr.Dudd]

UWI awarding honorary degree to Observer columnist John Maxwell



Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Veteran journalist and Observer columnist John Maxwell is among 16 people on whom the University of the West Indies (UWI) will confer honorary degrees during graduation ceremonies on all UWI campuses later this year.


Maxwell. has published over 1,500 columns

Maxwell, who writes a weekly column titled 'Common Sense' in the Sunday Observer, will be awarded the degree DLitt honoris causa, the UWI said in a news release posted on its website.

Maxwell, a journalist since the 1950s, has published over 1,500 columns and has been interviewed regularly by local and international media houses as an expert in his field.

"He has been an icon in public education, especially in areas such as decolonisation, democratic governance and related topics," the UWI said in
its release.

He is known for his unwavering commitment to the protection of the environment and is a passionate advocate of Haiti.

In addition to Maxwell, SuperClubs chairman John Issa and Gleaner chairman and managing director Oliver Clarke will receive Doctor of Laws degrees,
Other awardees will be:

. publisher and cultural historian Dr Anne Walmsley will receive a DLitt;

. scholar and historian Professor Colin A Palmer, a DLitt;

. Sir Frederick Ballantyne, governor general of St Vincent and the Grenadines, a Doctor of Sciences degree;

. entrepreneur Paul Bernard Altman, managing director of Altman Real Estate, will receive an LLD;

. Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, former prime minister of Barbados, will be awarded an LLD;

. Professor Zelma Edgell, is expected to receive a DLitt;

. Yesu Persaud, founder and chairman of Demerara Bank Ltd, is to receive an LLD ;

. petroleum industry pioneer, Robert B Riley, will receive an LLD;

. theatre artist and poet Christopher Laird will receive a DLitt;

. environmental activist Angela Cropper will receive a DLitt. She has recently been appointed assistant secretary-general and executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme;

. biographer, Professor Arnold Rampersad, will receive the DLitt;

. social worker and academic Dr Peggy Antrobus will receive an LLD; and

. Dunstan St Omer, the artist responsible for designing the National Flag of Saint Lucia in 1967, will receive a DLitt;
According to the UWI, the awarding of the honorary degrees is part of its "ongoing campaign to shine light on those who tirelessly contribute to the growth of the region".

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Re: UWI awarding honorary degree to Observer columnist John Maxw

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: UWI awarding honorary degree to Observer columnist John Maxw

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: evanovitch</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> </div></div> You better hope that Tuffy don't see you celebratin.
When he is finished with you and the university god help bothe of you.

[iches]

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Congrats - he really worked for it.

Hope he don't cry when he's giving his speech!

Hope Mutty's will soon be one too - its too looong waiting!

[Dyoll_73]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: iches</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Congrats - he really worked for it.

Hope he don't cry when he's giving his speech!

<span style="font-weight: bold">Hope Mutty's will soon be one too - its too looong waiting!</span>
</div></div>

Don't count on it. You are more likely to see snow falling in Kingston first. Mutty has regularly referred to the UWI as an &quot;intellectual ghetto.&quot;

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: UWI awarding honorary degree to Observer columnist John Maxw

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Humano</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: iches</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Congrats - he really worked for it.

Hope he don't cry when he's giving his speech!

<span style="font-weight: bold">Hope Mutty's will soon be one too - its too looong waiting!</span>
</div></div>

Don't count on it. You are more likely to see snow falling in Kingston first. Mutty has regularly referred to the UWI as an &quot;intellectual ghetto.&quot; </div></div> He does not deserve such honour. He is the Jamaican version of Rush Limbaugh

[Dyoll_73]

Re: UWI awarding honorary degree to Observer columnist John Maxw

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dr.Dudd</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Humano</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: iches</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Congrats - he really worked for it.

Hope he don't cry when he's giving his speech!

<span style="font-weight: bold">Hope Mutty's will soon be one too - its too looong waiting!</span>
</div></div>

Don't count on it. You are more likely to see snow falling in Kingston first. Mutty has regularly referred to the UWI as an &quot;intellectual ghetto.&quot; </div></div> He does not deserve such honour. He is the Jamaican version of Rush Limbaugh </div></div>

This is grossly unfair! Rush is a bigot. That can't be said of Perkins. When I use to listen to him regularly, he would promulgate views on education and health-care, for example, that I considered close to my own - and I'm left of center on those issues. He was a fierce critic of PNP mediocrity, and that, I suppose, did not endear him among those in that party. I think if Perkins was a talk show host in the US, he would be considered pretty mainstream. One would have to be so far to the left to call Perkins right-wing.

And given his criticisms of the UWI, I don't think he would consider it an honour to receive such an award from them.

[Tuff Gong]

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One again the Intellectual Ghetto has not disappointed they have chosen to offer a HD to one of the most dishonest, tribalistic, lackey Journalist in Jamaica.
This is guy who called for the destruction of Tivoli Gardens, led a march on the JLP Prop Newspaper where a man was killed and his tongue cut out.
This is disgrace to Jamaica but not a surprise!

[iches]

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Both has contributed in their own way, and both has written good papers over the years, also years of talk shows. Both has risked their lives for their beliefs, and finally had some &quot;Power&quot; over the other politrickers - they had newspaper daily columns (power of the pen), radio and television to express their beliefs and opinions, treating yours as thrash.

And finally, with all that was said and done - they are still around today - untouched.

Mutty, must be laughting his head off, and if he decide to accept when it comes - I want that speech, and that's why he has not gotten it yet!

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: iches</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Both has contributed in their own way, </div></div>In what way has half-drunk dishonest John Maxwell contributed to anything but be the public face of successive corrupt PNP regimes and trying to discredit journalist such as Wilmot &quot;Motty&quot; Perkins?

[iches]

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Good question! And maybe, I can ask one too &quot;Why,keep him on payroll's if he wasn't doing his job?

[Tuff Gong]

Re: UWI awarding honorary degree to Observer columnist John Maxw

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: iches</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Good question! And maybe, I can ask one too &quot;Why,keep him on payroll's if he wasn't doing his job? </div></div>He is doing his job. That was his job as was the job of 99% of the so-called journalists and tenured UWI Professors in Jamaica, to be the public face of the corrupt PNP Leadership.

The Jamaica Observer was just another extension of that thinking. When it was formed the stated mission of one of its principals was to give the PNP a voice in media to counter what they considered a bias in the Gleaner of the 70s and early 80s.
Things got so bad that when the PNP lost after their 19 years of terror a great falling out had occurred and butch Stewart was moved to publicly speak out against a regime that he had created his paper as a mouthpiece for in better times.

[iches]

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I understand what you are saying about the Observer, but my responses has to do before the Observer came in. He was writing for the Gleaner and Star, had air time on both radio stations, and also on TV. I also understand your reason for dislike, but like anybody else who has done right and wrong in their live time, has been rewarded or honoured for their years of contribution to their field of service, and a nobody like me won't even be considered, so he has passed their requirements for a Hon. Doc, and to balance it out - Mutty, should accept too.

[Tuff Gong]

Re: UWI awarding honorary degree to Observer columnist John Maxw

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: iches</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I understand what you are saying about the Observer, but my responses has to do before the Observer came in. He was writing for the Gleaner and Star, had air time on both radio stations, and also on TV. I also understand your reason for dislike, but like anybody else who has done right and wrong in their live time, has been rewarded or honoured for their years of contribution to their field of service, and a nobody like me won't even be considered, so he has passed their requirements for a Hon. Doc, and to balance it out - Mutty, should accept too. </div></div>Can you point to any articles of note he wrote for any media prior to the Observer that might have influenced the gifting to him of an HD.

But quite apart from that he led a campaign to discredit and destroy Motty Perkins for years even as recently as I think 2006 when he wrote an idiotic, scurrilous article that suggested that Motty Perkins got him from the Gleaner.

[iches]

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No, I will try later to see what I can find.

I thought he was a UWI graduate. Anyway, they did months of research on him, for him to get through.

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