I was recently in Saint Lucia celebrating the annual Nobel Laureate Festival. This year's theme was Celebrating Excellence: Forty Years On which celebrates that one of its Nobel Laureate's Sir William Arthur Lewis, received his prize for Economics 40 years ago. Sir Derek Walcott received his prize for Literature in 1992 and together with his [...]
Celebrating Excellence: Forty Years On...The Saint Lucia STAR newspaper, has published an amazing supplement that gives an insight into the lives of Saint Lucia's Nobel Laureates, Sir William Arthur Lewis, Nobel Prize for Economics in 1979 and Sir Derek Alton Walcott, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, and their families. The year 2019 marks the [...]
Next weekend the small village of Dennery in Saint Lucia will come alive with conversations pertaining to 'excellence'. I had to look up the word "asymptotic" as I wasn't familiar with the word in that form, but could guess what it should be based on the title of the lecture "Excellence: An Asymptotic Journey Towards [...]
Saint Lucia celebrates their Nobel Laureate's this week and it started off with a bang! With the theme Celebrating Excellence: Forty Years On, the media did a fantastic job showing the public why the Festival was named so aptly. A packed church with parishioners, Committee members, families, blessing the start of the Nobel Laureate [...]
The Nobel Laureate Festival features the Youth Art Exhibition featuring selected art work (painting, photograph or sculpture) of 16 to 20 year old youth. The exhibition is based around an interpretation of a selected piece of work by Sir Derek Walcott, or a quotation from the works of Sir Arthur Lewis. All art work selected [...]
Launching Saint Lucia's Nobel Laureate Festival is always a joy for me as I'm surrounded by people who love education and creativity. It also gives me an opportunity to meet new media personnel, colleagues and friends from the UK who come to Saint Lucia during this time. Through its many events, I feel proud to [...]
Saint Lucia has launched Nobel Laureate Festival 2019 which celebrates their two Nobel Laureates, Sir William Arthur Lewis and Sir Derek Alton Walcott. Under the theme, Celebrating Excellence: Forty Years On, the Festival takes place in various venues around Saint Lucia. Nobel Laureate Festival Committee Chair and Former Governor General of Saint Lucia, Her Excellency Dame Pearlette [...]
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