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UWI Cave Hill in financial bind

Professor Eudine Barriteau, pro vice-chancellor and principal of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill campus in Barbados, has painted a troubling picture about the state of the institution’s finances. “The Cave Hill campus is at the...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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