COLLEGE YAAD
O’Shane ‘Kreemie’ Reid
Interview
tremendously valuable. I influence students to not
only run for a guild position but also participate in
activities on campus. The other day i even got the
opportunity to go to Trinidad to represent the guild
at the Inter Campus Guild Council Meeting (ICGC)
and that was a wonderful experience, so my life has
changed for the better.
What is your Name?
O’Shane ‘Kreemie’ Reid
Why Kreemie?
I normally say its because i have alot of flavour
*laughs* but thats not the reason though. Growing
up my mom had a ice cream shop, and i never use to
go out so people use to call me kreeme so they use to
see me in the ice cream shop. So from that, through
high school and at college now my name is kreemie.
As Guild Public Relations Officer (P.R.O.) what are
some of the plans you have for the remains of your
tenure?
Just to keep doing what i have been doing, the ...and
development aspect of the portfolio, keeping people
informed about activities happening on campus,
because at the end of the day that is what people will
judge my tenure as; how much did they know about
the office of the guild P.R.O. and what is happening
on campus. Just some new initiatives and just to be
P.R. for outreach, sports, the president. Since the
start of this semester its been going good, we were
in the observer on January 19th and we were in the
Gleaner on the 22nd.
Give me a short bio of yourself?
I am just 22, i look old, *laughs* i went to Camperdown High School and 6th form, i was deputy head
boy, and despite popular belief i am a nice person.
I use to play chess, thats a bit shocking, but i won,
i also won RBTT National School Chess Championships, as captain of the team in 2008-2010. I am
now at UWI studying Media and Communication at
CARIMAC, i recently found that communication is
my passion so i am sticking to that.
If you could use three words to describe yourself,
what would they be?
Jovial, confident and positive
Personally! Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
I hope to start my masters, that is what i would like
to do, because i think if i end school now and begin
to work i will become complacent and then wont do
my masters until somewhere around 30, and i would
also love to get my PhD before 30 so i think school
is a good point for me. I also hope to start my own
communications firm, so hopefully in 5 years you’ll
know about O’Shane Reid as a P.R. extraordinaire.
What led you to run for a position on the UWI
Guild?
To be honest i was in 2nd year and the guild did not
have a P.R.O. at the time, so finding my new love for
communication i thought to myself how could i help
my fellow students, so that is the reason i ran for a
guild post as Public Relations Officer. I wanted to
see how i could help and fix the problems. I said in
my campaign that i wanted to restore the integrity of
the guild.
What were some of your memorable experiences as
a student?
Well the Trinidad experience feinately, but some other of these experiences are not solely mine, but t was
great meeting wonderful people, building bonds and
i have been to alot of places. Also moving on hall,
the great Chancellor Hall: it is said that there are
only two halls on campus
How has your life changed as a guild representative?
Well in high school i was quite kind of popular, so
i wouldn’t say popularity, but a number of persons
know me. But the experience on the guild has been
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