THE MONTHLY GLEANER | JULY 18 - AUGUST 17, 2024 | www.jamaica-gleaner.com | NEWS 14 Plaint CL2023CV00229 Mycordo Adgar v Everton Brown, Linden Thomas, Lancelot Riley, Desmond Thompson, Dwayne Ayton-Plaint CL2023CV00229 TAKE NOTICE DWAYNE AYTON that action has been filed against you in the Clarendon Parish Court holden May Pen by Mycordo Adgar whose address is in c/o Treshia Griffiths & Co Attorney-at-Law of Suite No 8, 40 Shortwood Road, Kingston 8, St. Andrew, Jamaica, West Indies for damages for negligence arising out of a motor vehicle accident which occurred on the 3rd day of August 2019 along Bustamante Highway in the parish of Clarendon involving Toyota Caldina Registered 9786DF driven by Everton Brown owned by Linden Thomas, Toyota Yaris Registered 8299HX driven by Lancelot Rily owned by Desmond Thompson & Nissan Sunny Registered 6916HR driven and owned by Dwayne Ayton, requiring you to appear before the court to answer to plaint. TAKE NOTICE that the Summons, Plaint Note, Particulars of Claim, Notice of Intention to Tender into Evidence Hearsay Statements Made in Documents are deemed to be served upon you by this advertisement. You are required to enter appearance either in person or through an attorney-at-law at the Clarendon Parish Court holden May Pen on the 17th September 2024 at 10:00am. If you fail to do so, the court will proceed to hear the claim and pronounce judgment, your absence notwithstanding. TRESHIA GRIFFITHS & CO. Attorney-at-law for the Plaintiff Dated the 9th day of May, 2024 NOTICE OF PROCEEDINGS Neil Armstrong/Gleaner Writer A JAMAICAN Canadian literary and cultural theorist has been appointed the new associate vice president: equity, diversity and inclusion (AVP: EDI) at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario for a five-year term beginning August 1, Emancipation Day. Dr Andrea Davis says it’s a good move, she is excited and looking forward to what it produces. During her over 20-year career at York University, she has served as a distinguished faculty member and chair in the Department of Humanities. Leading a transformative vision of interdisciplinary teaching and research, Dr Davis is the founder and programme coordinator of the Black Canadian Studies Certificate and was the academic convenor of the 2023 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. “I am delighted to welcome Dr Davis to Laurier,” said Heidi Northwood, provost and vice president: academic. “Her deep disciplinary knowledge, creativity and extensive leadership experience will make her a valued leader and supporter of students, staff and faculty alike at Laurier. She will be at the centre of our collective effort to create a community where everyone feels a sense of belonging, empowerment and connection.” Asked about leaving York, Dr Davis said: “The work of EDI, of equity, and trying to create a more just university is really not confined to one university campus. So, campuses across Canada, across North America are trying to respond to these questions which are contemporary and urgent questions about the relevance of the university in the wider world – both in terms of producing knowledge and making that knowledge respond to the lived experiences of people.” She described it is a significant shift nonetheless, noting: “But I’m really not thinking about the work as siloed work. I’m going to be very eager to think about how one builds relationships and builds partnerships, and the ability to combine strategies so that we can have more forceful impact that’s generated right across multiple places.” CROSS-APPOINTMENTS In her new role, Davis aims to continue to implement Laurier’s strategic plan for EDI and engage with equity-deserving groups, delivering strategic expertise to the multicampus academic and administrative units. She will also direct the Centre for Student Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (CSEDI) and Office of Human Rights and Conflict Management (OHRCM) to advance supports for Laurier students and communities. “My commitment to champion and support first-generation and racialised students, diversify the professorate, and embed Black Studies in the humanities has permeated all aspects of my work as an educator, researcher, and academic leader over the 20 years of my career,” said Davis. “The role of AVP: EDI formalises that ongoing work. I am excited to have the opportunity in a student- and community-centred university to support a culture of inclusive belonging that permeates all aspects of Laurier across campuses. I look forward to creating a tangible culture of access and inclusion.” Having served as a special adviser on anti-Black racism strategies at York’s Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies and as interim director of the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC), Dr Davis brings extensive leadership experience to her role as AVP: EDI. She also contributed significantly as chair of York’s Senate Academic Policy, Planning, and Research Committee. Davis holds cross-appointments in several graduate programmes at York and has received numerous accolades for her contributions to teaching and research. She was the recipient of the prestigious 3M National Teaching Fellowship in 2021, recipient of an honorary Doctor of Laws from Royal Roads University in 2023 and has been recognised with honours and awards at the faculty, university, and national levels. Davis succeeds Vanessa Oliver who has served as interim AVP: EDI since May 2023. With a notable career, Davis’s research expertise centres on the literatures and cultures of black women in the Americas and is supported by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Fostering cross-cultural dialogue, Davis is recipient of the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) best book award for “Horizon, Sea, Sound.” Building on her work as an accomplished author, she is lead co-editor of The Routledge Handbook to Black Canadian Literature and co-editor of the Journal of Canadian Studies. When Jamaica celebrated its 50th anniversary of independence in 2012, Davis co-edited with Dr Carl James the anthology, Jamaica in the Canadian Experience: A Multiculturalizing Presence. She is already thinking of organising an annual lecture series that could become a book of essays in the future, and she is also working on a semi-fictional work, The Black Atlantic and the Wide Sargasso Sea, to try to trace the journey of her great-great-grandmother across the Sargasso Sea from England to Jamaica. Jamaican Canadian professor appointed new associate vice president Dr. Andrea Davis appointed the new associate vice-president: equity, diversity and inclusion (AVP: EDI) at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario. CONTRIBUTED
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