2018
2018

SECOND YEAR REPRESENTATIVE

The Mona Law Society is a student built organization that represents the unified body of law students on the Mona campus and demonstrates a collective desire to make a difference in the legal fraternity and the surrounding community.

As Year 2 Representative, my role centered around representing the interests and needs (whether academic, welfare, social, or career development) of a 200 large 2nd year Law student population on the MLS Executive and at relevant Faculty Board Meetings.
2018-2019
2018-2019

Vice President - Alumni Relations of the UWI Students’ Today, Alumni Tomorrow (STAT) Vice-Chancellor’s Ambassador Corp

UWI STAT Ambassadors are the Vice Chancellor’s Student Representatives on all five UWI campuses. 

UWI STAT Ambassadors introduce students to the importance of alumni relations and loyalty and service, educate them about the UWIAA and the relevance of Caribbean cross-cultural integration, thereby cultivating in students the relevance of a life long relationship with The University of the West Indies. 

Therefore, As VP with responsibility for Alumni Relations, my executive role involved establishing and maintaining relationships with UWI alumni, creating new ways to connect with students, and innovatively oversee the personal and professional growth of current students who may be able to mutually benefit.
2019-2020
2019-2020

President of the UWI Students’ Today, Alumni Tomorrow (STAT) Vice-Chancellor’s Ambassador Corp

For the academic year, 2019-2020, I ascended within the Organization from Vice President of Alumni Relations to President. As President, my duties would now become more centered around Setting the annual goals for the Mona Chapter, as well as employing strategies to ensure the Organization's brand and work becomes stronger and more prominent.

Some major accomplishments are:

  • The acceptance and subsequent Presentation of a poster with the research topic 'Climate Change and the SDGs in the Caribbean: Youth led virtual forums advocate for action' at the Sixth Annual International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD) - Showcasing the proposal for our launched regional UWI STAT Climate Change Advocacy Network.
  • Launched a High School Mentorship Programme at Papine High School in collaboration with the Mona Social Services Unit in January 2020. The targeted group was a class of Grade 11s who received sessions on Conflict Resolution, Life Coaching, Empowerment programmes such as financial literacy.
  • Oversaw the formation of a Financial Ambassador Programme with Corporate Champion Victoria Mutual (VM) Financial Group. The 'FETE' programme seeks to help Jamaicans to make better financial choices by training students/young people to educate their peers, and families. 
  • First ever multi-campus CARICOM initiative involving inter-campus pairs to enhance integration (150 students total from the campuses involved) This program, 'CARI-YOU PENPAL-COM', still active today, gives students the platform to share their cultures, their experiences with a similar student from another UWI Campus. The ultimate aim is to enhance regional integration among Caribbean Islands forming a stronger unit for the future.
2020-2022
2020-2022

Training & Development Coordinator - Caribbean Regional Youth Council

The Caribbean Regional Youth Council (CRYC) is a strategic youth governance and advocacy movement in every Caribbean country to facilitate the development of youth by serving as an essential engine not only for advancing the cause of youth.

Having been appointed by the CRYC Executive board, as Training Coordinator, I accomplished the execution of a series of virtual  development workshops attended by nearly one hundred (100) members from Caribbean National Youth Council organizations as well as organized the monitoring and evaluation of a digital resource space on Google Classroom. In this virtual classroom space, a few areas covered for the student learners were: Strategic Planning, Grant Proposal Writing, Organizational Management, Resource Mobilization as well as Membership retention & growth. 
2021
2021

Commonwealth Youth Peace Ambassador (CYPAN)

The Commonwealth Youth Peace Ambassadors Network (CYPAN) brings together young people from across the Commonwealth to upscale and optimise grassroots, national, regional and Pan-Commonwealth efforts to promote peace, respect & understanding and preventing violent extremism. These young people range from community-level and policy-level peace advocates and includes young people who use alternative methods to peace-building from filmmakers to artists to sportspeople.
2021
2021

Caribbean Youth Parliament on Climate Justice

Shamar serves on the first ever 15-person Caribbean Youth Parliament on Climate
Justice, which was hosted by the Caribbean Climate Justice Project. Here he represented Jamaica debating a 13-point resolution on climate justice for citizens of the Caribbean in September 2021. Among several other points, the resolution called on the international community to do the following:

  • States with the greatest responsibility for anthropogenic climate change to provide the required financial and technological resources to countries in the global south to help them respond to the myriad impacts of climate change
  • Embark on an urgent and sustained global effort to close the mitigation ambition gap and place the world on a pathway that will limit the average global temperature increase to 1.5oC
  • Implement a Global Carbon Tax on all major emitters of greenhouse gases, with the proceeds to be paid into a fund to address loss and damage in developing countries
2022-
2022-

Vice Chair - Policy & Advocacy of the Caribbean Regional Youth Council

In March 2022, after being duly elected to the Executive by the General Assembly of National Youth Councils, I would ascend to the position of Vice Chairperson of the organization. My current role involves:

  1. Preparation of accessible and succinct policy and advocacy statements and reports and to support and contribute to policy design.
  2. Monitoring and evaluation of policies that affect young people and provide recommendations for improvement.
    Accomplishments: (to date)
    a) The development of a research arm in order to drive and create a space for Caribbean authentic research and data all acoomplished by young research volunteers as well as through the support of the Commonwealth Secretariat
    b) Reparations Advocacy Spotlight with the Barbados National Task Force on Reparations.

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