The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus will confer honorary degrees on four distinguished individuals during its graduation ceremonies on October 28 and 29, 2005. These honourees include former Queen’s Counsel & distinguished lawyer, Tajmool Hosein; Kittitian Queen’s Counsel, Joseph Samuel Archibald; British Biophysicist, Professor Raymond Gosling; and Guyanese historian Sister Mary Noel Menezes. Likewise, the Mona Campus will honour a total of five persons, while six persons will be similarly awarded during double ceremonies at the Cave Hill Campus.

Tajmool Hosein, a native of Trinidad, has had a distinguished career in the field of law, for which he was honoured with the highest national award, the Trinity Cross. His other professional honours include that of Queen’s Counsel in 1964 for the Trinidad & Tobago jurisdiction and Queen’s Counsel for the Associated States, conferred by the Governor General of Antigua in 1982. Mr Hosein was also associated with the establishment of a second newspaper in Trinidad in 1967 and served for 30 years on the Board of the Express Newspaper. He served as member of the Judicial & Legal Services Commissions from 1973 to 1988. The University of the West Indies has also benefited from his expertise as he served as a member of the Campus Finance and General Purposes Committee for two years and was also a member of the St Augustine Campus Council. Mr Hosein will be conferred with the honorary LLD degree.