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For­mer prime min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has pushed back against what he calls a cam­paign of “mis­in­for­ma­tion and po­lit­i­cal re­vi­sion­ism”, de­fend­ing his ad­min­is­tra­tion’s han­dling of the UWI Debe cam­pus, To­ba­go au­ton­o­my, and the school build­ing pro­gramme.

In a de­tailed Face­book post, Dr Row­ley chal­lenged re­cent pub­lic claims, par­tic­u­lar­ly by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, and ac­cused the Op­po­si­tion of dis­tort­ing his­tor­i­cal facts.

Re­gard­ing the UWI Debe cam­pus, Dr Row­ley said the fa­cil­i­ty was de­vel­oped with­out a sus­tain­able fund­ing plan, be­com­ing a fi­nan­cial bur­den dur­ing a time of eco­nom­ic con­trac­tion when na­tion­al rev­enues dropped from $50 bil­lion to $38 bil­lion be­tween 2015 and 2019.