Special Convocation of The Most. Hon. Portia Simpson-Miller

A Special Convocation for the conferment of The Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws on The Most Honourable Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller, ON, Former Prime Minister of Jamaica.

The University of the West Indies (The UWI) will hold a special convocation to confer the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD) on the Most Honourable Portia Lucretia Simpson Miller, ON, former Prime Minister of Jamaica. The ceremony will take place at the Assembly Hall, The UWI Mona Campus in Jamaica. The University is conferring this LLD in recognition of her outstanding and meritorious contribution to public life, and of her phenomenal achievements as a woman from the working class community who, without the privileges of wealth, colour, class and respected profession, overcame those obstacles and emerged as the first female Prime Minister of Jamaica.