UWI sociologist and international development consultant, Dr Leith Dunn, has been named a member of the Commonwealth Observer Group for the Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Government Elections to be held in Zambia this month.

The Principal of The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus and other members of the University Administration met with students at the Irvine Hall of Residence this afternoon, Monday, August 28, 2006 to discuss matters related to the incident which occurred on the Hall on Sunday, August 27, 2006 and which resulted in the wounding of a female student on the Hall.

The University has been informed that the student was attacked by a visitor who was a guest of hers, under circumstances which could not have been avoided by any security measures which the institution has in place.

In light of the impending approach of Tropical Storm Ernesto, The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus is requesting that students who were scheduled to take up residence on campus for the start of the new academic year, delay doing so until further notice.

Students who are already in residence on campus have already received instructions from the Student Services Managers of the respective Halls regarding the arrangements being made for their accommodation on campus during the storm.

The University of the West Indies (UWI) is tremendously saddened by the passing of Jamaica’s national treasure and cultural icon, the Hon. Louise Bennett Coverly, affectionately known as “Miss Lou’ on whom it conferred the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters in 1982 in recognition of this ‘poet, public servant and patriot’.