Update: Grenada National Archives – New hope
Today (3rd March 2015) Grenada’s Information Service (GIS) informs us that:The University of the West Indies (UWI) has “brushed aside suggestions that the Keith Mitchell administration is to be blamed for the delay in the Open Campus project in Hope St. Andrew“.
Principal of UWI Open Campus (Grenada) Eudine Barriteau made the disclosure in St. George’s after presenting our political cabinet with a proposal for the project.
Claims that the current government was delaying the project have been attributed to opposition sources.
“The feedback is that the cabinet is supportive of the project as we have in fact anticipated, so if they are any misconceptions that there was a delay coming from the government that is totally incorrect”, Barriteau said.
The UWI Open Campus Principal told local journalists that the search for a reliable architect firm was the cause of the delay.
“In fact what was the delay…the Open Campus needed a partnership with a reliable quantity surveying architectural firm and we found that partnership with a firm out of Trinidad and Tobago that has expertise in engineering”.
The Open Campus project in Hope involves two phases during construction.
To us the most significant fact is that the first “Phase A”, which features the construction of administration offices, classrooms, and early child centres, the phase also promises the construction of a National Archives.
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Professor
on gender and public policy, Violet Eudine Barriteau who is Pro-Vice
Chancellor had assumed office as Principal of our University of the West
Indies Open Campus (Grenada) on 1st August 2014 (having succeeded then
Pro Vice-Chancellor Professor Hazel Simmons-McDonald). Now she has
successed Hilary Beckles as new Principal of UWI (Cave Hill, Barbados)
from 1st May 2015.
The 60 year old professor
Grenadian by birth, with a distinguished record as a Caribbean scholar
and administrator, Professor Barriteau has served in various roles at
The University of the West Indies for more than 30 years. She holds a
PhD in Political Science from Howard University, an MPA in Public Sector
Financial Management from New York University and a BSc, Upper Second
Honours in Public Administration and Accounting from The University of
the West Indies. She also holds a professional certificate in editing
and scholarly publishing from the International Rice Research Institute
in Los Baños, the Philippines.
References: 20/07/2012: Government of Grenada hands over land to UWI 09/08/2012: Grenada to get UWI campus 11/10/2013: Open UWI Suppliment |
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