June 2027
Silver Jubilee Convocation
A ceremonial convocation in Barbados admitting the anniversary cohort of Fellows, with the Presidential Badge worn by the seventh President of the College.
Silver Jubilee · 2002 – 2027
Twenty-five yearsnof Caribbean surgery
From an idea agreed in a Barbados meeting room in 2001 to a Fellowship spanning sixteen territories — the College marks a quarter century.
25
Yearsnof thenCollege
The Caribbean College of Surgeons Inc. was incorporated as a non-profit company under the Companies Act of Barbados in 2002, and formally launched at the Kapok Hotel in Port-of-Spain the following June. Twenty-five years on, the College convenes surgeons from across the archipelago, publishes their scholarship, sets the standards their practice is held to, and trains those who will take their place.
- Incorporated
- 2002
- Launched
- 2003
- Jubilee
- 2027
Barbados
Port-of-Spain
Barbados
01The anniversary programme
How the College will mark it
Four commemorations, running through 2027 and beyond — a convocation, a banquet, a volume, and an endowment for the surgeons who come next.
June 2027
The Anniversary Banquet
The closing gala of the 25th Annual Scientific Conference, honouring the founders, the past Presidents and the Honorary Fellows who built the institution.
Publication
Commemorative Volume
A special edition of the Journal of the Caribbean College of Surgeons collecting twenty-five years of regional surgical scholarship, history and reflection.
Ongoing
The Legacy Fund
An endowment to extend the College's trainee fund — supporting surgeons in training to broaden their experience with Fellows in smaller communities across the Caribbean.
03The road to the Jubilee
Twenty-five years, in order
- 1970s
A region trains its own
Postgraduate surgical training begins at the University of the West Indies, the first institution built to serve the English-speaking Caribbean as a whole — and the answer to a generation of brain drain.
- 2001
Barbados, March
The Royal College of Surgeons of England accepts an invitation to hold an overseas meeting in Barbados with the UWI Department of Surgery. Surgeons arrive from across the region — and agree that the Caribbean should have a College of its own.
- 2002
Incorporation
A steering committee chaired by Professor Walrond, with Mr. Cecil Cyrus, Mr. Denis DeQuesnay and Dr. Terry Ali, concludes the constitution. The Caribbean College of Surgeons Inc. is incorporated as a non-profit company under the Companies Act of Barbados.
- 2003
Port-of-Spain
The College is formally launched at the Kapok Hotel, Trinidad, in June. Prof. E. R. Walrond is elected President, with Prof. V. Naraynsingh as Vice President, Andrew Richardson as Secretary and Terry Ali as Treasurer.
- 2004 – 2011
An itinerant College
Annual meetings travel the archipelago — Antigua, Barbados, Jamaica, St. Lucia, The Bahamas, St. Kitts, Guyana, Grenada — binding national surgical communities into one regional Fellowship.
- 2007
The Presidential Badge
Prof. David Rosin, Honorary Fellow, donates the Presidential Badge of the College at the annual meeting — the emblem worn by every President since.
- 2025
Antigua
The 23rd Annual Scientific Conference meets in Antigua.
- 2026
Tobago
The 24th Annual Scientific Conference meets in Tobago, opening with a diabetic foot workshop at Scarborough General Hospital.
- 2027
Twenty-five years
The College marks a quarter century since incorporation, returning to Barbados — where the idea was agreed — for the 25th Annual Scientific Conference.
The 25th Anniversary Legacy Fund
Mark the anniversary by training the next generation
Since its founding the College has maintained a fund to help trainees and medical students broaden their experience alongside Fellows in smaller communities across the Caribbean. The Legacy Fund extends it for the next twenty-five years.
Barbados, June 2027
Join us for the Silver Jubilee
The 25th Annual Scientific Conference returns to the island where the College was agreed. Registration opens to Fellows in good standing first.