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MINISTER of Tertiary Education Prakash Persad reacted to questions about the required remediation of the proposed Debe campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI), by saying that costs were still being calculated, speaking to Newsday on May 21.

The day before Energy Minister and Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal toured the site which he complained had been left unoccupied and left in a state of disrepair, despite its initial price-tag of $600 million.

It was originally built starting in 2012 to house a Faculty of Law, but in 2019 was then chosen to facilitate a Faculty of Medicine and most recently been designated to become a Global School of Medicine (GSM) for international students pursuing a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree.