At the 4th International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) in Antigua and Barbuda, The University of the West Indies (The UWI) represented the region with over 25 leaders and academics participating.

Her Excellency Judith Slater, British High Commissioner to Jamaica, is pleased with groundbreaking Castor Bean research under way at the Mona Institute of Applied Sciences  (MIAS) at The UWI, Mona.

A rare Jamaican Giant Galliwasp (Celestus occiduus) specimen kept in The Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow in Scotland since the 1800s has finally returned to its homeland.

The Mona GeoInformatics Institute (MGI) at The University of the West Indies has won the prestigious Google Geo for Good Impact Award for 2023/2024.

Paul Brown, professor of molecular biology at The UWI, Mona Campus, did not sound an alarm during his recent professorial lecture titled, "Genes and Shorts: lepto and other stories, through molecular lenses”.