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published: Friday | October 5, 2007
Musgrave medallists (from bottom left) George Sylvester Huggins, who was awarded the bronze medal for music; Phillip Arthur Supersad, for the arts; Donna Scott-Mottley, silver medal for legal skills; Prof. Betram Fraser-Reid, gold medal for chemistry, and Sam Clayton, representing the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, who received the gold medal for music, pose with (from top left) Michael Anthony Lorde, silver medal for achitecture and theatre arts; Michael 'Ibo' Cooper, silver medal for music and arts management and Winston 'Sparrow' Martin, bronze medal for music. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer
Professor Bertram Oliver Fraser-Reid, this year's recipient of the Gold Musgrave for Distinguished Eminence in the field of Science, says Jamaica needs to pay closer attention to its development of science and technology as it seeks to improve its socio-economic status.
Speaking during Wednesday afternoon's Musgrave Medal , held outside the Institute of Jamaica on East Street, Kingston, Professor Fraser-Reid argued that Third World countries like Jamaica should follow the model of India in its pursuits of science to further economic growth.
"We and other pre-colonial nations in the Third World have not learned that new wealth comes from science and technology," he said.
"In 10 years I have seen Hyderabad in India grow from a disorganised city, to a place that now boasts of cyber cities and several research laboratories that equal anything you would find in the First World," he said.
According to the renowned author, the use of science and technology enabled India to leap from an agricultural to a modern economy, bypassing the industrial revolution as had been practised in most other economies.
"Its dominance today is recognised in information technology, but that ascendancy rests on a foundation that had been by science and technology," said Prof. Fraser-Reid.
The world-renowned chemist and co-author of over 330 publications is also recognised as the first scientist to synthesise the suspected toxin that causes the disease malaria. The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari received the gold medal for music and Captain Barrington Irving Jr. received the youth medal while four others received silver and two persons received bronze medals in their respective fields.
Musgrave medallists (from bottom left) George Sylvester Huggins, who was awarded the bronze medal for music; Phillip Arthur Supersad, for the arts; Donna Scott-Mottley, silver medal for legal skills; Prof. Betram Fraser-Reid, gold medal for chemistry, and Sam Clayton, representing the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari, who received the gold medal for music, pose with (from top left) Michael Anthony Lorde, silver medal for achitecture and theatre arts; Michael 'Ibo' Cooper, silver medal for music and arts management and Winston 'Sparrow' Martin, bronze medal for music. - Winston Sill/Freelance Photographer
Professor Bertram Oliver Fraser-Reid, this year's recipient of the Gold Musgrave for Distinguished Eminence in the field of Science, says Jamaica needs to pay closer attention to its development of science and technology as it seeks to improve its socio-economic status.
Speaking during Wednesday afternoon's Musgrave Medal , held outside the Institute of Jamaica on East Street, Kingston, Professor Fraser-Reid argued that Third World countries like Jamaica should follow the model of India in its pursuits of science to further economic growth.
"We and other pre-colonial nations in the Third World have not learned that new wealth comes from science and technology," he said.
"In 10 years I have seen Hyderabad in India grow from a disorganised city, to a place that now boasts of cyber cities and several research laboratories that equal anything you would find in the First World," he said.
According to the renowned author, the use of science and technology enabled India to leap from an agricultural to a modern economy, bypassing the industrial revolution as had been practised in most other economies.
"Its dominance today is recognised in information technology, but that ascendancy rests on a foundation that had been by science and technology," said Prof. Fraser-Reid.
The world-renowned chemist and co-author of over 330 publications is also recognised as the first scientist to synthesise the suspected toxin that causes the disease malaria. The Mystic Revelation of Rastafari received the gold medal for music and Captain Barrington Irving Jr. received the youth medal while four others received silver and two persons received bronze medals in their respective fields.