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Construction at The UWI South Penal/Debe campus underway

For Release Upon Receipt - April 10, 2013

St. Augustine


ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago –An article in the Business Guardian on April 4 stated that The UWI South Campus Penal/Debe project is still to get off the ground. However, Campus Principal and Pro Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (UWI) St. Augustine Professor Clement Sankat said that this is erroneous and this Campus is steadily gaining momentum.

A status report dated April 5, 2013 from Acuitas Caribbean Limited, the contracted Project Manager, stated that “piling for the Hall of Residence is 90% completed; piling for the Student Union is fully complete; pile caps and ground beams are underway for the Halls of Residence and Student Union and the Academic Building; the Moot Court pile caps and ground beams are completed and the internal roadways are in progress. Currently, there are 107 workers on the site.”

This first phase of this project will include accommodations for The Faculty of Law, a Campus Library, a General Academic/Administration Building, Student Union Building, Students Halls of Residence and Playing Fields.

The UWI St. Augustine South Campus, Penal/ Debe is expected to have the first intake of students in September 2014.

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Over the last six decades, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged University with over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest and most longstanding higher education provider in the English-speaking Caribbean, with main campuses in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and Centres in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Christopher (St Kitts) & Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines. UWI recently launched its Open Campus, a virtual campus with 45 physical site locations across the region, serving 16 countries in the English-speaking Caribbean. UWI is an international university with faculty and students from over 40 countries and collaborative links with over 60 universities around the world. Through its seven Faculties, UWI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science & Technology, Food & Agriculture, and Social Sciences.

(Please note that the proper name of the university is The University of the West Indies, inclusive of the “The”, hence The UWI.)

 

 

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