Academic awards 

2005-7             Doctoral fellowship, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig, Germany)

2003-5            University of the West Indies Postgraduate  Scholarship

2002-3             Tate & Lyle Cambridge Chevening Scholarship

2002                Reinecke Prize for Best Graduating Student in Linguistics

2002                Paul Davis Memorial Prize (Spanish and Linguistics)1

2002                Nominee, Prime Minister’s Youth Award.

2000-2             University of the West Indies Open Scholarship

2000                Arts & Education Faculty Prize, University of the West Indies2

1998                Kiwanis Club Youth in Excellence Award

1996                                Rupert Miller Award for Excellence in Languages (English & Spanish)

1995                                Earle and Norma Foster Bursary

1995                Bank of Nova Scotia Bursary