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Sat Maharaj, secretary general of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha, said yesterday when he spoke about a rasta hairstyle harbouring parasites, he was speaking about any unkempt hairdo, including dreadlocks.

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.

PORT OF SPAIN, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Trinidad and Tobago's British-based players are coming under increasing pressure from their clubs to quit international soccer, the country's football federation said on Wednesday.

This is the final of a two-part feature on the debate on anti-gay lyrics in dancehall music. Part one was published yesterday.

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.

In recent months, particularly since the death of noted gay activist Brian Williamson, gay activists, led by Outrage, have been falling over themselves to fill international media houses with anti-dancehall propaganda. Dancehall music is labeled 'hate music' and 'murder music' in an international context where the term 'hate speech' has very negative connotations.

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.

The launch of the first community radio station in Point Fortin on Friday night was hailed by the police as the first such event in the borough that was incident-free.

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.