The University of the West Indies yesterday offered students of its Mona campus, who may still be hard-up for cash, options that they can employ to ease their financial burden.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell got a glimpse of the destruction wreaked by Hurricane Ivan on Grenada and promised Wedneday that millions of dollars in U.S. aid was on the way to the island, where some complain they have been forgotten by the United States.

Seeking, like the rest of the world's airlines, to navigate its way out of serious economic turbulence, Air Jamaica yesterday staked its survival on chopping up to US$50 million, or 10 per cent, from its annual costs and vowed to take necessary tough decisions to achieve the goal.

A video-photographer hired by the promoters of the Luciano concert was allegedly abused and threatened by police officers when they caught him filming them as they appeared to be brutalising two patrons who attended the concert.

Scores of students, representing several of the island's leading tertiary institutions, marched through war-torn Spanish Town yesterday, denouncing the violence which has been plaguing sections of the Old Capital.

Chairman of the Trinidad and Tobago Coalition against Domestic Violence, Diana Mahabir-Wyatt, has labelled the country as the domestic violence capital of the Caribbean, and says members of the judiciary should be more sensitive to the plight of domestic violence victims.

Unreported research by the Toronto District School Board shows that English-speaking Caribbean immigrants are those most at risk of failing to complete high school.

After weeks of investigations in and around Harpe Place, the Sunday Guardian uncovered a community ruled by a deportee and his gang, guns, sex, URP money and illegal drugs.

Despite a significant oil boom boost to the economy in the past year, the unemployment rate has remained at an untenable ten per cent, raising concern about the competitiveness and suitability of the foreign exchange rate.

At least one sitting Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) parish councillor was convicted and fined for fraud 15 years ago and still has two cases outstanding against him, including one from 1982 for the illegal possession of a firearm.