GREEN ISLAND, Hanover — ​The University of the West Indies (UWI) has detailed a comprehensive capital expansion and modernisation project for its Mona and Western Jamaica campuses, set to be executed over the next three to four years.

​Key developments in the short to medium term include the construction of a 50-bed hospital in western Jamaica, alongside a new School of Engineering and a centralised campus hub at the Mona site.

“The truth is that Mona is on a transformational path, and what we’re seeing is that we are reviving the systems and procedures and processes about how we do things at our Mona campus. We are talking about modernising the campus, not only in terms of infrastructure work, but in terms of our governance, in terms of our academic programmes, and also in terms of the processes and systems that we do,” stated The UWI, Mona principal, Professor Densil Williams.