The Students’ Car Park located next to the Department of Physics will be closed for approximately three months, from June 1 – August 30, to facilitate construction of a Juici Patties outlet. The UWI Mona apologises for any inconvenience which may result.

The Finance and General Purposes Committee, (F&GPC) Mona has approved the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus and the Lions Club of Kingston, Mona for the construction and equipping of a Resource Centre for specially challenged students attending the Mona Campus. Under the terms of the agreement, the Lions Club will provide funding for a two storey building for use as a multifaceted resource centre for students with disabilities who require special services and facilities.

The University of the West Indies through the Quality Assurance Unit of the Board for Undergraduate Studies will host a Quality Enhancement Conference on June 8 and 9 under the theme: Quality Enhancement: Innovation and Change. The Conference will be held at the Learning Resource Centre at the St Augustine Campus in Trinidad. Quality is a major issue of concern to educators the world over, and this Conference invites Caribbean educators to share with international and regional presenters some of the many contemporary perspectives which relate to the quality discourse.

The Fourth William Dennis Memorial lecture will take place on Thursday, June 9 at 6:00 p.m. The Lecture this year is being held under the Theme, Medical Ethics, the Law and Child Health. The lecture will be given by Professor Stephen Vasciannie, Professor of International Law, UWI, Mona, who will speak on the topic International Law and the Question of Abortion. Topics to be covered by other speakers include Informed Consent and the Paediatric Patient and Bioethics and the Law Applied to Conjoined Twins.