UCC News & Updates

They'll call him 'Dr Fyah'

Leighton “Fyah” McKnight to get honorary doctorate

PHILANTHROPIST and popular man-about-town Leighton “Fyah” McKnight will boost his growing trophy chest of accolades when he receives an honorary doctorate in business administration from the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC) on July 17, 2022.

McKnight, the territory leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Jamaica is especially known as the man who mentors scores of children from indigent and broken homes, helping to nurture them into scholars, professionals, and all-round productive citizens.

McKnight, Dyer & Reid to receive UCC honorary doctorates

Hon. Godfrey Dyer OJ, tourism and business titan and a Distinguished Governor (DG) of the Kiwanis Movement in Eastern Canada and the Caribbean

The Board of the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC) has announced the award of Honorary Doctorate Awards “Honoris Causa”, to three eminent Caribbean Professionals who have distinguished themselves in the fields of accounting/finance, hospitality and tourism/business and in medicine/psychiatry.

‘You made my dream possible’: First Rickert Allen scholar tells UCC, NCB

Nadian Whyte is closer to her dream of attaining a Bachelor of Science degree in Networking and Cybersecurity and working in her chosen field thanks to the inaugural University of the Commonwealth Caribbean/National Commercial Bank (UCC/NCB) Dr Rickert Allen Scholarship she received in 2021.

The youngest of seven children for parents of modest means, Nadian credits hard work at secondary school and prayers for the fateful advisory from UCC and the NCB Foundation which confirmed that she would be the first recipient of the scholarship named for the late Dr Rickert Allen, a former president of the UCC and past head of NCB Group’s human resources and facilities division.

Dr Denzil Douglas gives UCC Group an 'Earned Distinction'

The UCC Group of companies has earned the highest distinctions in academia and business in the estimation of Dr. Denzil Douglas, longest serving Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis (1995-2015), current Leader of the Opposition of the twin-Island Caribbean nation.

A Board Member of UCC Global, an online education division of UCC, Dr Douglas said that he was “very thankful for the opportunity to serve this growing organization which has identified and is providing valuable support in so many critical areas, to Jamaica and the region and has earned a distinction both for achievements in academia and in corporate enterprise.”

Inmates, warders to get tertiary scholarships

National Security State Minister Zavia Mayne (standing, right), looks on as (seated, from left) Lt Col (Ret’d) Gary Rowe, commissioner of corrections; Geraldine Adams, deputy executive chair, University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC) Group; and Carla Gullotta, executive director, Stand Up For Jamaica, exchange documents while signing a memorandum of understanding for correctional officers and inmates at the Tower Street Correctional Centre and St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre to pursue tertiary studies. Also looking on are Sonia Davidson (standing, left), head of the Business Administration Department at UCC, and Dr Yvonne Dawkins, associate vice-president for academic affairs, UCC. The signing ceremony was held at the UCC’s main campus on Wednesday.

Four additional inmates and two correctional officers from the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre are being given full scholarships to pursue a Bachelor of Business Administration at the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC).

This is being made possible under a programme extended yesterday with the signing of a memorandum of understanding by the Ministry of National Security, the Department of Correctional Services (DCS), the UCC, and human-rights lobby Stand Up For Jamaica.