Started in 2008, UTT Tamana campus to be completed in 2022
File photo: Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat.
Agriculture, Land and Fisheries Minister Clarence Rambharat said the UTT Tamana Campus is due to be completed in 2022. He said the campus, on which construction began in 2008, was currently at 89 per cent completion.
Rambharat was responding to a question on behalf of the Minister of Education in the Senate on Tuesday, posed by Opposition Senator Wade Mark, who wanted to know why the cost of the project increased from $975.5 million to $1.5 billion in 2017.
Rambharat said, “The question is based on a false premise, as the budget increased in 2013, not 2017. In July 2013, the government at the time agreed that the cost of the signature building complex would be increased to $1.501 billion. That increase was in 2013, not 2017.”