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St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves Monday said he would not blame either his Dominican or Barbadian counterparts for the controversy surrounding the decision of the US-owned Ross University to re-locate to Barbados.<\/p>

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Speaking at a news conference, Gonsalves told reporters that he had received information \u201cfrom different sources\u201d and he does not believe that \u2018anyone can reasonably blame Prime Minister (Roosevelt) Skerrit (of Dominica) of losing Ross University neither can one reasonably blame Mia Mottley of poaching Ross University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe matter which comes out stark to me first of all is that the business entity has no loyalty to any country or any community if that loyalty conflicts with what they perceive to be their immediate, medium term long term interest,\u201d Gonsalves said.<\/p>

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Over the weekend, the Dominica government called for an end to the \u201cunwarranted verbal attacks\u201d against the Barbados government as a result of the decision of the university to re-locate after 40 years there.<\/p>

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\u201cThe decision to relocate to Barbados was a decision taken solely by Ross University School of Medicine (RUSM). The relationship between Barbados and Dominica is longstanding and amicable. The people and Government of Barbados have always stood with us both in good times and most recently in difficult times,\u2019 Skerrit said in a radio and television broadcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Skerrit administration said it had informed the Ross University School of Medicine that it could have resumed its operations on the hurricane struck island even before the start of the January semester in 2019.<\/p>

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The island\u2019s ambassador to the United States and the Organisation of American States (OAS), Vince Henderson, speaking on a radio programme last Tuesday night, read from a three-page letter Prime Minister \u00a0Skerrit had sent to the university in July indicating that plans were advanced for the resumption of classes in Portsmouth, north of here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is my fervent hope that all things considered there will be a much earlier re-opening of the campus that has been indicated in your earlier communication and during your visit in April 2018,\u201d Skerrit wrote in the July 9 letter to the Adtalem Global Education president and chief executive officer at Ross University,\u00a0 Lisa Wardell.<\/p>

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\u201cI wish to assure you that all the arrangements we discussed for the accreditation for Ross by the Medical Board have been acted upon to meet the desired expectation,\u201d Skerrit added.<\/p>

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Last week,Prime Minister Mottley denied there was anything underhanded by her administration into accepting the Ross University School of Medicine\u2019s move to the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBarbados came into the picture, only when, for Ross University, returning to Dominica for the start of the January semester in 2019, was not an option. This is not and has never been a case of poaching or enticing anyone away from Dominica,\u201d she said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this month, Skerrit announced Ross University, which had been forced to relocate its operations to St Kitts and the state of Tennessee in the United States following the passage of Hurricane Maria last September, would be leaving the Eastern Caribbean nation after 40 years. Hours later, Mottley and Wardell held a press conference in Bridgetown indicating that Barbados would be the new home of the American university by January 5, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her statement, Mottley said while she could not speak for or on behalf of Ross, \u201cthe hands of the Barbados Government are clean in this matter\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gonsalves said Ross University was built in Dominica, recalling that \u201cwhen Ross went to Dominica in 1978 \u2026they started with 80 students, they would have had a hurricane in 1979\u2026that did not stop them, they were just up and running, they came back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey have had other hurricanes. The Barbados government, nobody could tell Ross that there will be no hurricane in Barbados. Barbados has had hurricane in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey (Ross) have assessed where they are. The back to back hurricanes were probably the occasion, the spark for them having consideration for moving. But they would have assessed that their immediate, long term interest is no longer with Dominica\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gonsalves said the decision by Ross was \u201cclearly\u201d not based solely on the weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLook, Grenada is outside the hurricane belt more than Barbados. They say Grenada is south of the hurricane belt but what happened in 2004. Ivan blow down the whole place including the medical school and they build it back better because they saw their long term interest being there in Grenada\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gonsalves recalled that when the off shore medical schools were first coming into the region, some Caribbean countries campaigned against them saying \u201cthey are bad for the medical profession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNow their thinking is clearly different,\u201d he said, adding he is unaware if the medical professionals in Barbados \u201care yet convinced about having it (offshore medical school).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is going to be interesting to see how those medical doctors going to work with the medical students at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. I am sure they would be working out all of those problems and I don\u2019t want to be negative about that, but I come back to the fundamentals that you can\u2019t reasonably blame Roosevelt Skerrit or Mia Mottley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe thing is this between the decision to leave somewhere and to go somewhere else is always some period of uncertainty and that has to be sorted out\u2026and they decided they going to Barbados. But basically 40 years of Ross in Dominica, clearly they did not consider that to be of any importance to them,\u201d Gonsalves told reporters.<\/p>\n

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