{"id":38542,"date":"2019-06-16T21:40:22","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T01:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=38542"},"modified":"2019-06-16T21:40:22","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T01:40:22","slug":"uwi-has-unanimously-approved-antigua-campus-says-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/uwi-has-unanimously-approved-antigua-campus-says-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"UWI Has Unanimously Approved Antigua Campus Says PM"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prime Minister Gaston Browne says UWI will write to Antigua on Monday or Tuesday this week confirming the fourth landed campus at Five Islands.<\/p>

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Browne disclosed over the weekend that the vice chancellor of the University already conveyed to him the good news on Friday.<\/p>\n

“Sir Hilary (Beckles) called myself and the honourable attorney general last evening and he informed us that the members of the University Council have now unanimously approved the fourth landed campus for Antigua and Barbuda,” Browne told his weekly radio programme.<\/p>

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The prime minister said following the announcement by UWI, an implementation committee will be established by the university.<\/p>

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“My understanding now is that on Monday, the chancellor, after he would have informed the various council members, he would then issue a formal statement to that effect and he will then mandate the university to establish an implementation committee, the prime minister announced.<\/p>\n

The government has expressed the wish to open the university by September 2019. No announcement has been made about an opening date.<\/p>

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Browne said the three campus countries which had concerns about the fourth landed campus have now been satisfied.<\/p>\n

“You know there are three countries who had reservations, those reservations have been lifted,” he said.<\/p>

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The government said it would fund the university by a windfall tax on financial institutions and by diverting some funding to the prime minister’s scholarship programme.<\/p>

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