University of the West Indies

The University of the West Indies (UWI) is an autonomous regional institution supported by and serving 16 countries and territories in the Caribbean - Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago and the Turks and Caicos. The university consists of three major campuses at Mona in Jamaica, St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago, and Cave Hill in Barbados, together with a satellite campus at Mt. Hope, Trinidad and Tobago and Centre for Hotel and Tourism Management at Nassau, Bahamas. Resident Tutors are also present in non-campus contributing territories, together with branches of the UWI School of Continuing Studies

Noted alumni

• Kenny Anthony, Prime Minister of St. Lucia
• Owen Arthur, Prime Minister of Barbados
• Denzil Douglas, Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Wendy Fitzwilliam, former Miss Universe
• Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines
• Pearlette Louisy, Governor-General of St. Lucia
• Patrick Manning, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
• Keith Mitchell, Prime Minister of Grenada
• Percival Patterson, Prime Minister of Jamaica
• Walter Rodney - Guyanese historian and political figure
• Derek Walcott - Saint Lucian Poet, Nobel laureate