The University of the West Indies has learned with regret of the passing of Professor Robert LePage, Professor Emeritus and a former member of staff of the then Department of English and Mortimo Planner. Prof. LePage was a pioneer in the development of Creole Linguistics. He was co-author with Prof. Frederick Cassidy of the “Dictionary of Jamaican English” and the organizer of the first ever conference on Creole Language. He was founder and former president of the Society for Caribbean Linguistics. There is an account of his life and work at www.scl-online.net/rblepage.html

Enrolment at the UWI Mona Campus for the 2005-2006 academic year now stands at just over 15, 000 students. This represents a four percent increase over registration for last year and a thirteen percent increase over the three-year period 2003/2004 to 2005/2006. The enrolment figures were presented at the meeting of the Mona Campus Council, held in the Council Room last Friday, March 10. Campus Council was told that since 2003/2004, the Mona Campus has surpassed the targeted 2.4 percent annual growth in on-campus enrolment as specified in the Strategic Plan.

The Caribbean Publishers Network and the World Intellectual Property Organization in association with The University of the West Indies will host a Regional Workshop on Intellectual Property Issues in the Publishing Industry from March 30-31 at the UWI Mona Visitors’ Lodge and Conference Centre, Jamaica and from April 3-4 at the UWI St. Augustine, the Heartese Facilities, Trinidad. For further information, please contact Latoya West, CAPNET Secretariat at 978-0739 or email info@capnet.com

As part of its efforts to satisfy the human resource needs of Jamaica and the Caribbean, the UWI Mona Campus has introduced a number of new programmes aimed at satisfying the needs of the private and public sectors. The focus of the new programmes has been in health, education, environmental science, foreign language studies and computer science and information technology.