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COVICRIER COLLEGE OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS, CARIBBEAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE, ST. THOMAS, V.1. 00801 VOLUME VI, NUMBER 1 March 1983 Research: Projects & Plans CONSULTA- In January and (Chair), Dr. Wilburn Smith, Mrs, TIVE February the new Linda Creque, Dr. Robert Brander COMMITTEE Consultative Commit- and Dr. Norwell: Harrigan. The tee held its other member, Mr. Philip Gerard organizational meetings when CRI of St. Croix, was unable to be in relation to the College and present. Institute staff present research efforts in the Virgin to provide information requested Islands and the Caribbean was by the Committee were the discussed. Director, Coordinators of Environmental and Social Research Centers, and the Administrative Assistant who served as Secretary. The main topic of the January meeting was consideration of the Visiting Committee's report to the President (see COVICRIER, June 1982). At the February meeting a sub-committee was formed, with Canon Clarke and Drs. Smith and Padda as members, to study further the implementa- tion of recommendations made by In attendance were: Mr. Andre the Visiting Committee and a Ottley (attending for Senator draft Mission Statement submitted Virdin Brown), Dr. Darshan Padda, by the Director. A report will the Reverend Canon Clarke, be made to the whole committee by i address entitled "Each Endeavoring, All Achieving." At the Charlotte Amalie High School on February 16th, the top- ic of his address was "The State of Black Economic Dependency in the USVI: What can be Done About Tee? In Frederiksted, his address at the Arthur A. Richards High School on February 29th was Enti- tled "Sir Arthur Lewis: The First Black Nobel Laureate in Economics." DROP-OUT Dr. Bliss presented STUDY results of Phase I of RESULTS the Drop-Out Study to PRESENTED a meeting of private and public school ad- ministrators on St. Croix on March 16th and on March 17th Se St. Thomas administrators. APPOINTED Dr. Jones—Hendrickson EXAMINER was appointed Extern- al Examiner for Grad- uate Economic theory and Graduate Quantitative Economies, for the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Assistant Examiner in business/social sciences for the Caribbean Examinations Council in Barbados. Comings & Goings DR. AJAYI Dr. Owolabi Ajayi at- IN FLORIDA tended the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Conference on “Water Supply: The Management Challenge," held at Tampa, Florida on March 14-17, 1983, where he made a presentation on "progress and Needs in Caribbean Water Resources Operations." The paper was co-authored by Dr. Institute Director: N. Harrigan Editor: A.M. Brown-Comment Production & Distribution: M. Rogers Ajayi, Donald Francois, P.E. of the Water and Power Authority (WAPA) and Terence Thompson, P.E. of the Envirosphere Company of New York. The paper dealt with the Training of operations and maintenance workers, use of hillside and roof catchments, distribution systems and metering, and the authors made several recommendations for water storage and conservation in the Caribbean area as a whole. They stated that: The experience gained in the Virgin Islands in managing water supply operations is applicable to other Caribbean is- lands in several ways. In most instances the Caribbean islands will continue to draw ona variety of sources for potable water supply. It will usually be preferable, however, to develop groundwater sources to the maximum extent possible. In developing groundwater resources, it is imperative that safe- guards against over- pumping be implemented and that laws or regulations protecting groundwater quality from contamination from wastewaters or improper disposal of solid wastes be enacted and enforced. Other participants to the conference came from the British Virgin Islands, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic, The Caribbean Research Institute is a division of the College of the Virgin Islands. It was established in 1966 to provide a central research agency in the Virgin Islands and to encourage research in the Caribbean basin. Itpursues a broad spectrum of investigation in the natural, physical, social and economic sciences.