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very same people who have brought the university into disrepute. I will be writing to CMU about it,” the upset mother told The Gleaner.

The wall of fame in question is mounted on the newly constructed PetroCaribe Building of the Festo Authorised and Certified Training (FACT) Centre for Mechatronics and Automation. Opened last September, the stateof-the-art facility, which aims to deliver international certification in industrial automation and mechatronics, is the result of a partnership between the CMU and globally renowned German training institute Festo Didactic.

The centre, which is the largest to be established globally, has the capacity to train and certify more than 4,000 students annually.

The PetroCaribe Development Fund provided US$402 million (J$54 billion) of the more than US$700 million (J$95.7 billion) spent on the facility,

Reid and Wheatley – along with 14 others, including Prime Minister Andrew Holness – were inducted into the wall of fame for their contribution to establishing the centre.

On Wednesday, Archibald Gordon, CMU’s director of marketing and communications, told The Gleaner that he would seek guidance from the university administration before commenting on the issue.

“[From what I know], we had not thought of it. It’s a set of tiles with the names of [persons] who contributed to the development of the centre,” he said.

However, in light of the objections now being raised, Gordon said he would be discussing the matter with the CMU administration and provide an update to The Gleaner.

In May, the CMU removed Wheatley’s name from a centre named in his honour at its main campus following public backlash as details surfaced about alleged impropriety at a number of agencies under the ministry, including NeSOL, Petrojam, and the Universal Service Fund.