The Gov­ern­ment of Japan an­nounced its Spring Con­fer­ment of Dec­o­ra­tions, The Or­der of the Ris­ing Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, on Pro­fes­sor Bev­er­ly-Anne Carter, for­mer di­rec­tor at the Cen­tre for Lan­guage Learn­ing, Fac­ul­ty of Hu­man­i­ties and Ed­u­ca­tion, at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI), St Au­gus­tine, in recog­ni­tion of her ex­cep­tion­al con­tri­bu­tion to the pro­mo­tion of aca­d­e­m­ic ex­change and mu­tu­al un­der­stand­ing be­tween Japan and T&T.