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Honorary Doctor of Laws from UWI for Shivnarine Chanderpau­l

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Former West Indies Captain and middle order batsman, Shivnarine Chanderpau­l is to receive an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from The University of the West Indies’ St Augustine campus.

According to a report in playing for Lancashire in the English County Championsh­ips, also appeared in 268 One Day Internatio­nals.

The other honorees are calypso legend Winston Bailey, better known as The Mighty Shadow, Paula LucieSmith, former prime minister of The Bahamas, Hubert Ingraham and Professor Dermott Kelleher.

According to report, Bailey will have all reason to “dingolay” this October, as three weeks after he celebrates his 77th birthday, he will be awarded with an Honorary Doctor of Letters during the campus’ three days of graduation ceremonies scheduled to begin on October 25.

Paula Lucie-Smith, the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Adult Literacy Tutors Associatio­n (ALTA), will receive an honorary Doctorate of Laws. ALTA is a nonprofit organisati­on in existence in T&T since 1982 which addresses the issue of adult literacy and has helped hundreds of people since its inception.

Former prime minister of Bahamas Hubert Ingraham will be awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws. Ingraham was the prime minister of Bahamas from August 1992 to May 2002 and again from May 2007 to May 2012.

Prof Dermott Kelleher, the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, Canada, will receive an Honorary

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