THE University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona is mourning the death of Louraine Emmanuel last Sunday.

Emmanuel has been part of the UWI community for more than 25 years, beginning with work at the main library on the campus in the early 1980s.

In 1986, she joined Dr Lucille Mathurin Mair to work on the first project of cooperation between the Netherlands Government and the university, which led eventually to the establishment of the Centre for Gender and Development Studies (CGDS).

“As administrative officer in the Regional Coordinating Unit of the CGDS, she provided significant and unwavering support to the units on all three campuses,” UWI said in a release to the media on Friday.

Her contributions to that unit were such that she was honoured by the CGDS on its 10th anniversary.

Emmanuel was, until recently, a member of the National Dance Theatre Company Singers, with which she toured extensively overseas, but not before distinguishing herself as a featured soprano with the University Singers during her undergraduate years at Mona.