CMI to get campus in St Thomas

The Government is looking at establishing a full campus of the Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMI) in St Thomas. Education Minister Ruel Reid said that the Government has particular interest in expanding the university into the parish to drive growth in tandem with the development of the St Thomas leg of the south coast highway.

He said that the institution, soon to be officially renamed Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), will have a presence in the proposed development for the Morant Bay town centre.

Reid said that there are also plans to expand the institution into other parts of the country.

"We need to have some capacity in the Clarendon area around Vernamfield because it is maritime and logistics; so what we don't want is for (CMI) to only have a presence in Kingston and St Andrew," he said.

CMI will officially become CMU on World Maritime Day, Thursday, September 28, at an official Charter Day ceremony at the National Arena.