Attorney General Sir Steadroy Benjamin is leading efforts to establish a law school at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Five Islands Campus, with plans for it to begin offering a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree by the 2027–2028 academic year.
The proposed programme is intended to widen access to legal education for students in Antigua and Barbuda and across the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), many of whom currently face challenges pursuing legal studies overseas.
Sir Steadroy said discussions are at an advanced stage, with the Five Islands Campus expected to receive academic support from UWI’s Mona Campus to ensure standards match those of existing UWI law programmes.
The law school would form part of the ongoing expansion of the Five Islands Campus, which is being developed as a regional university hub to serve the wider OECS.
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Great job Cutie!!!
Lead!
Lead!
Lead!
Why aren’t you leading the mission to the Law Leaders meeting out of Antigua?
That’s the one we want you to lead.
Are you scared?
Of what?
Have you ever traveled since you became a minister?
Are you so indispensable that you cannot leave Antigua for a day.
Or is there something hanging over your head??
NEWS FLASH, Mr Benjamin.
FIC is part of the UWI. And UWI already has a Law school.
In fact, all the 3 campuses have a specialty department. Mona has medicine, Cave Hill has Law and Trinidad has Engineering & Agriculture.
Five Islands does not have one because it is not a real university. It is a secondary school. It was not properly planned and created. It is just a glorified sixth form in a tiny environment, far from what was planned by the UPP in another life. It is a monument to the vanity of Gaston Browne and Hillary Beckles.
Maybe you can come up with another idea for a specialty?
Then again you are like the rat and law is the cheese. Nobody will trust you around anything that has to do with the law.
Nice try.
Grand Ideas from a Grand Man. Pun Intended. This is veru visonary
@ You’re joking,
It’s beyond joking it’s an insult to the public.
I do not wish to live in a place with a docile public who politicians do the most ridiculous things and get away with it.
This is a government that just recruited 200 Ghanian nurses.
The local nursing curriculum is of such high quality of the graduates is such that it meets the needs of medical institutions in Canada UK and US.
The minister explained they are proached for a better life abroad; even though US recruitment pipeline has temporarily closed with the cost of a B-1 visa being $150,000.
It amazes me thst Politicians get away with ridiculous things like proposing a law school; and for the public is not in an uproar.
PM Gaston Brown had been testing this idea for sometime without any push back. Now his Minister of National security is saying the same.
Antigua has no shortage of attorneys, but if medical personnel.
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