IT WAS ALL ABOUT love yesterday as the Barbados chapter of the University of the West Indies Alumni Association (UWIAA) started its week of celebrations.

The week of activities commenced with a fellowship service under the theme Celebrating Love In Action and was held in Lecture Theatre 1 of the Roy Marshall Teaching Complex.

Officiating minister was Reverend Marcus Lashley, with the sermon being delivered by Reverend Martin Warrington, who asked the audience: "What is love?"

"Love has been misused and abused and has destroyed lives because it was not genuinely expressed [but] the Bible gives us a clear understanding of what love is," he said.

Warrington said love was from God, and anyone who did not know it also did not know God.

"Let us love one another as God commanded. He demonstrated it and expects us to share it. God is love, and everyone born of God is born of love and is one with God," he said.

The service also featured a solo by Anya Lorde and a liturgical dance/sign language performance by the Faith Holiness Church dance group.

Vice president of the association, Gloria Grant, said they usually held their celebrations over a period of a month, a format they would return to next year, as it would also mark the 60th anniversary of the campus.

The next event on the itinerary is a lecture today by former Miss Universe Wendy Fitzwilliam on the topic Battling The HIV Taboo In The Caribbean, in the Errol Barrow Centre For Creative Imagination.

The week ends with a career workshop followed by an afternoon of various gaming events on Saturday. (CA)