{"id":2838,"date":"2010-04-29T09:17:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T14:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2011-06-16T10:51:22","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T15:51:22","slug":"brock-gets-visit-from-trinidad-and-tobago-dignitaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/04\/brock-gets-visit-from-trinidad-and-tobago-dignitaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinidad and Tobago dignitaries visit Brock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2840\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2840\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2840\" title=\"Trinidad and Tobago visitors\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/trinidadtobago2.jpg\" alt=\"trinidadtobago2\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front row, from left: Kim Meade, Helen Atteck, Camille Robinson-Regis, Keith Kerwood, Brian McMullan. Second row, from left: Murray Knuttila, Michael G. A. Lashley, Tony Weadick, Sean Coote<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A delegation from Trinidad and Tobago visited Brock this month to learn more about the University.<\/p>\n<p>Camille Robinson-Regis, High Commissioner of Trinidad and Tobago, visited Brock April 23 along with Keith Kerwood, a Counsellor from the High Commission, and Michael Lashley, Consul General from the Consulate General in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>While here, the group met with Brock International, International Market Development and International Services. They received a tour of the campus and the new International building, and met with six Trinidad and Tobago students currently studying at Brock.<\/p>\n<p>They also had lunch with Murray Knuttila, Provost and Vice-President, Academic; Kim Meade, Vice Provost and Associate Vice-President, Student Services; Mayor Brian McMullan; Sean Coote, interim director, International from Niagara College, and Helen Atteck and Anthony Weadick from the St. Catharines Twinning Association.<\/p>\n<p>The Garden City is twinned with the Trinidad city of Port of Spain. That twinning includes an annual scholarship for a Trinidad and Tobago student to study at Brock.<\/p>\n<p>The group also talked to Brock officials about student recruitment, as well as forming more links between the University and schools in Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=TheBrockNews&amp;loc=en_US\"><em>Get <\/em>The Brock News<em> delivered to your email<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student recruitment and possible partnerships were discussed during a friendly visit to the University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[148,145,95,264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10586,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions\/10586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}