PM on Debe campus: Don't test me UWI - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

T&T – Row Between Prime Minister and UWI Over Use of Building

The battle lines are drawn over TT’s ghost university campus in Debe, and Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar isn’t mincing words: “That campus will house what the government says it will house. The administration will have no say in that.” In a fiery post-cabinet presser that felt more like a showdown, the PM slammed UWI’s sudden announcement that their new Global School of Medicine would open at the abandoned South campus in August. “It’s a …

PM Persad-Bissessar Pledges Upgrade Of UWI Debe Campus

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar SC says the University of the West Indies campus in Debe will be refurbished to provide further academic opportunities to students who reside in South, South-West, and Central Trinidad. The Prime Minister was speaking to journalists at the Post Cabinet Media Briefing on Thursday. "Yes, we said a law faculty there.

PM on Debe campus: Don't test me UWI - Trinidad and Tobago Newsday

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has issued a stern warning to the University of the West Indies (UWI) administration to not interfere with plans to open a law school at the university’s South campus in Debe. The campus began being built under the UNC-led People's Partnership coalition government in the 2010-2015 period and was completed in 2019, but never opened. On May 20, Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal toured the campus, which fall…

Inside the UWI Debe campus

The University of the West Indies (UWI) Penal-Debe South Campus is projected to finally house classes this year, over a decade after being abandoned and a whopping $600 million spent.