HLSCC graduation
Twenty business management students received post-graduate qualifications at a ceremony held at H. Lavity Stoutt Community College last week, the first time the new programme has been offered in the Virgin Islands. The students obtained master’s degrees or post-graduate qualifications through Manchester Metropolitan University, a United Kingdom-based university that taught the programme in HLSCC classrooms. The post-graduate course offering grew out of a longstanding partnership developed between HLSCC and MMU, according to an HLSCC press release. Education and Culture Minister Myron Walwyn, HLSCC President Dr. Karl Dawson and Dennis Dunn, MMU’s dean and pro-chancellor, spoke at the April 25 ceremony, as did Susan Daly-Richardson, who graduated with a master of science in business management. Ms. Daly-Richardson was the awarded for her “outstanding academic achievement,” according to the release. The other graduates were Vicki Samuel-Lettsome, Stephanie Benn, Sophia Brewley Massiah, Lydia Cline Parsons, Sharleen DaBreo, Lorna Fahie, Helen Frett, Geraldeen Johnson, Josephine Maduro, Charmaine Mercer, Julia Smith, Allen Smith, Tessa Smith Claxton, Lucian Turnbull, Tonya Wright, Delight Charles, Phyllis Evans, Jeremy Hodge and Leona Turnbull.
Tourism seminar
The BVI Tourist Board plans to hold a Sustainable Tourism Management Orientation Seminar for tourism-related businesses next week. The three-hour seminars will be held at 9 a.m. Monday at Maria’s by the Sea and at 9 a.m. Tuesday at Treasure Isle Hotel. A third session will be held for Virgin Gorda businesses at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at the VG Administration Building. The sessions are to focus on environmental sustainability and will be taught by Hugh Cresser, a consultant hired by the BVITB, the organisation stated in a press release.