From left, Dr. Donovan Stanberry, campus registrar, UWI Mona; Dr. Dennis Howard, lecturer and coordinator, Leisure and Cultural Enterprise Administration program; Ms. Michelle Williams, regional director, Caribbean, Latin America and Oceania Market, VP Information, Professor Densil A Williams, principal and pro-vice chancellor, UWI Mona and Dr. Deon Edwards-Kerr, dean, College of Humanities and Schooling.
Photograph by Aston Spaulding
The Vincent and Patricia Basis, in partnership with the Institute of Caribbean Research, College of Humanities and Schooling on the College of the West Indies, Mona Campus formally launched the Vincent and Patricia (VP) Leisure Cultural Enterprise Administration (ECEM) scholarship on the Mona Campus on Sept. 9, 2025.
This award will present tuition help and tutorial assist to 2 college college students getting into the BA diploma program in Leisure Cultural Enterprise Administration. These college students exhibit distinctive tutorial potential, management qualities, and a powerful dedication to advancing the Caribbean’s leisure and cultural sectors.
Every recipient can even full a final-year internship at VP-Information’ Jamaica department, which can supply direct publicity to the worldwide music trade.
The ECEM program has develop into the area’s main coaching floor for future tradition and artistic trade professionals.
Patricia (Ms. Pat) Chin, chairwoman of the Vincent & Patricia VP Basis and Co-founder of VP Information, expressed her enthusiasm for the initiative, calling it a visionary step ahead that emphasizes the significance of nurturing rising skills within the subsequent technology of cultural leaders—those that will form the creative and social panorama for years to return.
Michelle Williams, VP Information Regional Director of Caribbean and Latin America, and Basis board member, represented the Vincent and Patricia VP Basis in Kingston, Jamaica.
The launch held on the College of the West Indies, Mona Campus was attended by a number of senior workers together with, Professor, Densil Williams, principal and Professional-Vice Chancellor, of the College of the West Indies, Dr. Deon Edwards-Kerr, College of Humanities and Schooling; Dr. Dave Gosse, Chairman of the Institute of Caribbean Research, Dr, Dennis Howard, Coordinator of the Leisure and Cultural Enterprise Administration (ECEM) program and Dr. Donovan Stanberry, Campus Registrar.
Dr. Dennis Howard acknowledged that the scholarship is a welcome addition to the ECEM program, as it’s going to encourage college students who’re certified to enter this system however aren’t financially geared up to attend the college.
He continued, echoing the sentiment, “The Vincent and Patricia Basis is continuous its efforts to present again to the Jamaican leisure enterprise and to assist two needy potential college students understand their desires of pursuing a level in leisure administration.”
Functions for the scholarship are actually open by way of the Institute of Caribbean Research for any two college students pursuing a BA diploma in Leisure and Cultural Enterprise Administration. Extra data could be discovered on the UWI scholarship web page.
The requirement for the scholarship is predicated on monetary wants, participation in co-curricular actions, and most significantly, the recipients of the scholarship shall be given to college students from inner-cities communities.
