Four students from the Management Studies Department, Faculty of Social Sciences, UWI, Mona placed third in the Annual Opportunity Funding Corporation Venture Challenge Competition held April 10-13, 2003, at the Omni Hotel, CNN Centre, Atlanta, Georgia in the USA.  The UWI team, Deloree Staple-Chambers, Kurt White, Andrew Barclay and Boysie Barnett, emerged from a field of 16 universities in the competition which was hosted by Clark Atlanta University. For its efforts the team received a cash prize of US$3000.00 and a trophy and was voted the most innovative team of the competition.

The UWI (Mona) and Community Coop Credit Union Limited will hold its Annual General Meeting on Thursday, April 24 at the Interfaculty Lecture Theatre, Mona Campus at 1:30 p.m.  Registration begins at 1:00 p.m.  The first 100 registered and seated persons will be eligible to participate in the raffle.

The Department of Economics will host a special public lecture on Caribbean Development in Troubled Times on Monday, April 7 at the Mona School of Business Executive Conference Room, UWI.  The lecture will be given by Professor Compton Bourne, President of the Caribbean Development Bank.

Congratulations to Dr. Denise Eldemire-Shearer, Senior Lecturer in The Department of Community Health and Psychiatry, who was presented with the Distinguished Mentorship Award by the Behavioural and Social Sciences Section of the Gerontological Society of America. The presentation was made to her at the Fifty Fifth meeting of the Gerontological Society in Boston, USA.