According to the country’s president, Irfaan Ali, the idea is to locate the school in the town of East Berbice-Corentyne; it was not yet specified when it will open its doors, but the registration fees will be the same as those paid by students at the Saint Augustine campus (Trinidad and Tobago).

He dismissed that the new center represents a threat to the medical faculty of the University of Guyana, assuring that “competition is part of life and a necessity to improve quality”.

The UWI was founded in 1948 and has branches in Mona (Jamaica), Saint Augustine (Trinidad and Tobago), Cave Hills (Barbados), the so-called Global Campus that offers virtual courses from centers in 16 nations in the area and the Five Islands, dedicated to young people from five eastern Caribbean states.

The Jamaican Campus is the oldest one, which opened in the same year that the university was born.

In 2016 it launched a strategy to become one of the most respected university institutions in the world in 10 years, be financially sustainable, and to contribute to the revitalization of the development and growth of Caribbean economies.

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