A multimillion-dollar agri-business development project will be constructed at Dukes Plantation, St Thomas, on land gifted to the University of the West Indies’ Cave Hill campus five years ago.
Town and Country Planning approval has now been given for construction of the UWI/Dukes Agri-business-Science Development Park on the 28 and-a-half acres of land presented to the university by Duke’s owners Vanessa and Charles Edghill.
At the media launch of the project yesterday, UWI principal Professor Eudine Barriteau disclosed the Barbados Government had secured US$34 million (BDS$68 million) from the People’s Republic of China to fund it, through the island’s bilateral aid programme with that nation.
Construction is to begin in the first quarter of next year, with the project scheduled to be completed in two years. (GC)
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