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The University of the West Indies (UWI) is calling on Caribbean Community (CARICOM) governments to honour their outstanding debts to the region\u2019s premier tertiary institution.<\/p>

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Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley, speaking to reporters on Wednesday night on his return from attending the 29th<\/sup>CARICOM Inter-Sessional summit in Haiti, said that the leaders had met with UWI officials, including the Vice-Chancellor Sir Hilary Beckles, in Port au Prince to discuss the issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey came to make a presentation to the heads indicating that the university has very serious financial challenges to meet which require urgent attention and they implored the countries that are in arrears or those that have accumulated arrears that the university accounts require that those arrears be dealt with in some substantial way so as to not have\u00a0 their accounts presented in a\u00a0 manner that damages its ability to run its operations on sound financial practice, to put it mildly,\u201d Rowley said.<\/p>

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He said the leaders agreed given the case made out by the UWI \u201cstates will pay attention to the university\u2019s plight.<\/p>

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\u201cI expect that the university will visit Trinidad and Tobago in the next two weeks or so to have bilateral discussions because the discussions with respect to the various countries, who owes what and who could do what with respect with respect to the debt will be handled on a bilateral basis,\u201d Rowley said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo each country will talk with the university to see what can be done t bring about, pretty much a bailout from the situation they are in at the moment,\u201d he added.<\/p>

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Rowley did not discuss the amount owed to the UWI that has its main\u00a0campuses in Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n

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