{"id":31839,"date":"2019-05-20T13:16:27","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T17:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=31839"},"modified":"2019-05-20T13:16:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T17:16:27","slug":"pm-says-fourth-campus-issue-has-become-political","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/pm-says-fourth-campus-issue-has-become-political\/","title":{"rendered":"PM says fourth campus issue has become \u201cpolitical\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prime Minister Gaston Browne has said the decision regarding Antigua and Barbuda becoming the fourth landed campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) has become a political issue.<\/p>

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Browne, speaking on Pointe FM over the weekend, said as far as he is concerned \u201call the University Council was required to do,\u201d when it met here recently \u201cwas to ratify the decision for the opening of the campus.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you have certain individuals, certain members of the Council who turned the issue into a political issue. It ought not to be a political issue. For the last 18 months we have been negotiating with UWI to establish the Fourth Landed campus here,\u201d Browne told radio listeners.<\/p>

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Browne said based on the feedback he has received Jamaica appears to be opposing the establishment of the campus.<\/p>

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\u201cMost of the Council members supported the proposal, but you had a situation which I am told that at least one of the delegates from Jamaica stated that as far as they are concerned if there\u2019s a need, then Jamaica would expand their campus and I understand that the delegate for Barbados questioned what was going to happen to the Barbados campus if OECS (Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States) students are going to come to Antigua and not go to Barbados.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you are taking a political decision to undermine a developmental policy of my government then I have to be very firm and if (Barbados journalist) Sanka Price and others consider it to be arrogance, well guess what it is developmental arrogance to ensure the development of the people of this country\u201d<\/p>

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In a column published in the Nation Newspaper in Barbados, Price wrote that Caribbean governments continue, unfortunately, to approach regional issues in an insular manner when a united voice would be more effective.<\/p>\n

\u201cSadly, this is a throwback to the one-upmanship style that was pervasive in early post-colonial days. That approach has retarded the region\u2019s holistic development and allowed larger countries and multinational corporations to play us against each other to secure generous concessions and other sweetheart deals,\u201d Price wrote in the article headlined \u201cBrowne is not helping with unity\u201d.<\/p>

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He said that \u201cit is shameful that in the 21st Century some leaders still peddle this approach which may bolster their political base and national image, \u201cbut does nothing to strengthen us as a bloc to be reckoned with if we spoke and voted as a unit at international fora.<\/p>

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\u201cThe most consistent practitioner of this antiquated approach is Antigua and Barbuda\u2019s Prime Minister Gaston Browne. And his blunt, uncompromising statement last weekend on establishing a university campus in Antigua once again demonstrated this style.\u201d<\/p>\n

Price said that Browne\u2019s statements smack \u201cof an insular perspective, demonstrates why Browne\u2019s approach is backward. For the Anglophone Caribbean to achieve its true potential, it needs more enlightened leadership than this\u201d.<\/p>\n

Browne told radio listeners that \u201cwe can\u2019t allow people to come and bring regional politics into this decision,\u201d regarding the campus.<\/p>\n

The government said then that the Five Islands Campus should be opened in September with at least 1,000 students.<\/p>\n

The UWI existing campus territories are Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n

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