Students on deregistration list fail to show for meeting
THE UNIVERSITY of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, was on Wednesday evening still making last-minute attempts to allow students who were scheduled to be deregistered from the institution to continue their course of studies.

JPS donates $1.63m to UWI
THE JAMAICA Public Service (JPS) has donated $1.63 million to the University of the West Indies to assist eleven students who were facing the possibility of deregistration. Frank 'Tony' Ray, director of external affairs at JPS, made the presentation...

All public schools to remain closed today
THE MINISTRY of Education, Youth and Culture has advised parents, teachers and other stakeholders in education that all public schools will remain closed today. Dorrett Campbell, director of communications at the Education Ministry, said...

Police charge wife with Finn's murder
WESTERN BUREAU: MELODY BAUGH, the 24-year-old Jamaican wife of murdered Finnish national, 53-year-old Dr. Timo Juhane Pellinen, is booked to appear in the the Falmouth Resident Magistrate's Court today after being charged...

Phone frequency price row heats up
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad: COLIN CAMPBELL, chairman of the Spectrum Management Authority, and Jean Dixon, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Commerce, Science and Technology, could not sit still in Trinidad yesterday...

No headway in Texaco contractors' wage negotiations
A RIFT between the Union of Clerical Administrative and Supervisory Employees (UCASE) and Texaco Caribbean Incorporated shows no sign of healing, 24 hours before a two-week ultimatum by truck drivers...

J'can to chair launch of UN AIDS campaign
MISS KERREL McKay, 20-year-old AIDS activist and member of the Portland AIDS Committee, has been selected by the United Nations to chair the launch on Tuesday, October 25, of a five-year global campaign on children and AIDS.

NWA clears roadways in north, south Clarendon
MOST OF the roads in northern and southern Clarendon which were blocked by landslides or flooded because of persistent showers caused by Hurricane Wilma have been cleared by workers from the National Works Agency (NWA).

PM denies giving special orders to JDF in Tivoli operation
PRIME MINISTER P.J. Patterson has denied issuing any special instructions to the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) ahead of its recent involvement in a controversial joint military/police operation in Tivoli Gardens.