Tobago will have its own campus of the University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) says Science, Technology and Tertiary Education Minister Christine Kangaloo.

She has also revealed that a campus of the College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago (COSTAATT) will also be established in Tobago as she boasted of the Central Government’s commitment to the development of the intellectual capacity of all Tobagonians.

Kangaloo did so during her address at the People’s National Movement (PNM) political education meeting at the Esplanade in Scarborough. Also speaking at the meeting were Prime Minister Patrick Manning and Tobago House of Assembly Chief Secretary Orville London.

Before a small crowd of PNM supporters, Kangaloo said that due to the Government Assisted Tertiary Education (GATE) programme, ’more and more of Tobago’s scholars are attending tertiary education institutions.’

’You have to build the capacity to accommodate the increasing number of scholars and so, I am pleased and proud to tell you that the Government has approved the establishment in Tobago of a campus of the University of Trinidad and Tobago,’ Kangaloo said.

Calling the UTT a ’resounding’ success in Trinidad, she added that, ’as we all know things begun in Trinidad are perfected when brought Tobago.’

She said that ’within one month, UTT will be presenting to Cabinet details of the new campus’’ to allow for the commencement and completion of the project in the ’shortest possible time’.

Kangaloo also said the Manning administration was in discussions with the THA for the establishment of a COSTAATT campus.

It is to be constructed in the Cove area where Manning commissioned a brand new $428 million power station yesterday morning.

London said that the power station was just the beginning of the commitment of the Government and the THA to Tobago’s development as a proposed gas pipeline and receiving terminal for the facility is to be added at a cost of $1.3 billion.

In noting the PNM administration’s achievements in, and plans for Tobago since it won the THA elections in 2001, London conceded that there was always room for improvement as he announced the construction of a new administrative complex in Roxborough.He said that given what he called the success of the Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago (UDeCOTT) with projects in Trinidad, it will be responsible for the establishment of the administrative complex in Roxborough.