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Stu­dents of the Fac­ul­ty of Law at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies are push­ing back against a pro­posed re­lo­ca­tion to the Debe South Cam­pus, call­ing for an ur­gent meet­ing with key stake­hold­ers, in­clud­ing Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein, Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing Min­is­ter Pro­fes­sor Prakash Per­sad, the UWI prin­ci­pal, and of­fi­cials at the Law Fac­ul­ty.

The stu­dents say they felt blind­sided by a March 18 email from the Dean in­di­cat­ing, what they claimed was, a man­dat­ed move to the Debe cam­pus by Au­gust 2026. They view the re­lo­ca­tion as a breach of con­tract.

In an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, stu­dents said they en­rolled in and are pay­ing for a three-year, full-time, face-to-face pro­gramme at the St Au­gus­tine cam­pus, with no clause in­di­cat­ing pos­si­ble re­lo­ca­tion. They ar­gued that any sud­den shift to Debe, es­pe­cial­ly with pro­pos­als for hy­brid de­liv­ery, goes against what they agreed to.