MANNING
PORT-OF-SPAIN (CMC):
Prime Minister Patrick Manning has slammed lecturers and academics attached to the St. Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies who he claimed have political agendas and engage in an exercise of misinformation.
Manning, who leads the governing People's National Movement (PNM), told the audience who attended a forum at the Centre of Excellence, in Macoya, that his party had "great difficulty with politicians masquerading as lecturers."
"There are some problems at the University of the West Indies in Trinidad which are peculiar to the Trinidad and Tobago situation.
"I don't want to start a controversy in society this morning, suffice it to say that there are many who are of the view that the balanced citizen that one expects to emerge from the university and academic environment in tertiary education is something that may not be fully realised out of the approaches of the University of the West Indies, Trinidad, at this time. I am not talking about anybody else, but the St. Augustine campus," Manning said.
