two organisations helping to deal with AIDS.

Six bands took part in the event to help the Allan Vincent Smith Foundation for AIDS and the Supportive Therapy for AIDS Victims and their Relatives (STAR).

Yesterday, Mr. Martin Smith, who set up the Foundation after his son died of the illness in 1991, said he was delighted by the offer of support shown by the organisers.

"These people really are to be congratulated, everything was done on a voluntary basis and it was a great evening,'' said Mr. Smith.

The Foundation was set up in 1992 in memory of Mr. Smith's son, to help get rid of the taboo surrounding AIDS.

It acts as an educational organisation, runs a hotline and distributes literature about the illness. It is also trying to take AIDS education into the schools.

The event was held at the Oasis Club on Sunday, and was organised by Mr. Keith Phillips, Mr. Dennis Eldridge and Mr. Tommy Smith.

DRIVER DENIES RUNNING AWAY CTS Driver denies running away A Portuguese national denied running away from the scene of an accident when he appeared in Magistrates' Court yesterday.

Dino Santos, 47, of Spice Hill Road Southampton, was fined $450 and banned from driving for 12 months by Senior Magistrate the Wor. Will Francis.

Prosecutor Sgt. John Dale said that on June 4 officers were called to an accident involving two cars on North Shore Road, Devonshire.

Police were directed by the owners of one of the cars to search along the shore for Santos who had run into the bushes on the roadside.

The court heard that Santos was spotted coming out of the bushes looking badly shaken before he was arrested by Police.

Results from an alco-analyser test revealed that he had 80 milligrams of alcohol to 100 millitres of blood.

Mr. Mark Pettingill, representing Santos, said Santos did not run from the Police but from the driver of the other vehicle whom he was afraid would beat him up.

STUDENT SAKED FIR Students soaked It was a soggy welcome for toddlers at the Paget Tree Top School when they returned after the weekend to find three inches of water flooding their classroom.

But a Tree Top spokesman said it was school as usual as the toddlers were simply moved to a different classroom while the Fire Service cleared the water.

The Fire Service answered 30 flooding calls over the weekend.

TRAVEL WARNING HTH Travel warning Travellers to Mexico are alerted to a recent cholera outbreak in two Gulf port cities where victims of the disease now number almost 2,000.

The Ministry of Health advised anyone planning a vacation in Mexico to contact the Victoria Street Clinic.

The Pan American Health Organisation said there have been 1,737 confirmed cases of cholera so far this year compared with 594 cases in the same period last year.

The outbreak is located in the Federal District and the State of Tamaulipas in the area of Tampico-Madero -- both located at the mouth of the Panuco river which carries waste from Mexico City.

PHONES OUT GVT Phones out Government's direct phone system broke down on Friday, but a Government Information Services spokesman said the system was back on line yesterday.

The Direct Internal Dialling, or DID system, was down and the operator was unable to connect calls.

Offices affected by the failure included all 297 numbers, which she said, people did not usually use.

WOMAN ATTACKED CRM Woman attacked A 29-year-old Warwick woman yesterday told Police she had been beaten up and thrown into the bushes after "a conversation'' with a 31-year-old Hamilton Parish man.

The woman said he slapped and punched her, then threw sand in her face and threw her in the bushes.

Police said the woman received numerous bruises to her body. Inquiries were continuing into the matter.