Construction of Special Education Diagnostic Centre at CASE to Be Completed in 2025/26

Construction of a special education diagnostic centre at the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE) in Portland is expected to wrap up in the 2025/26 fiscal year.

The centre is also to be furnished and equipped by March 2026.

A sum of $180 million has been allocated for the undertaking in the 2025/26 Estimates of Expenditure, which was tabled in the House of Representatives by Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Fayval Williams, on February 13.

Up to December 2024, construction of diagnostic facilities at Church and Sam Sharpe Teachers’ Colleges in Manchester and St. James was completed.

The diagnostic centre at CASE was 60 per cent completed, while construction of a biodigester and abattoir was completed at the Portland campus.

The project, which commenced in April 2015, is slated to conclude in March 2026 after five periods of extension.

The National Education Trust is the implementing agency for the project, which has the objective of establishing three special education diagnostic centres at the aforementioned institutions.