Summary: UWI strides lauded at 75th Anniversary (Repeat). The strides of the University of the West Indies since its inception on January 7, 1943 were lauded as UWI as UWI marked its 75th Anniversary. The celebrations are planned in the first of which was an interfaith convocation service, which was held at UWI Chapel on the Mona Campus in Jamaica. UWI Chancellor ROBERT BERMUDEZ took the congregation down the memory lane as he delivery the founding story of the University of the West Indies.