Yahneake Sterling, Staff Reporter
A YEAR after the Public Safety and Justice Centre was launched at the University of the West Indies (UWI), The Gleaner has learned that it is just getting off the ground.
Seemingly, the Centre was just a centre on paper and is just in the process of hiring staff.
The Centre, set up to conduct ongoing research on crime, security and peace issues affecting the Caribbean and small states, is now drafting a three-year research plan to submit to the University.
"The reason for the delay, is that the Centre was launched in the middle of the academic year and as such no funds had been allocated for the it," said Professor Barrington Chevannes, Director of the Centre.
Professor Chevannes said the Centre has been involved in the planning of events and is in the process of developing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, which will allow for research students to be recruited.
