The development was disclosed by NCU President Dr Herbert Thompson during the installation service for the newly appointed president and secretary of the West Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, held in Montego Bay, St James, on Saturday.

"We are very delighted to receive this licence," said Thompson. "The Broadcasting Commission will not have to sanction anything that we broadcast. We will seek to lift Christ higher, and what the public will hear is clean religious lyrics."

Thompson said the university would be a primary vehicle in the training of its communication students.

The university had first applied for the licence in 2001. The university currently operates a campus station from its Mandeville base, which is aired on 88.3 FM.

NCU is the flagship institution of the West Indies Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and is the largest university operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church worldwide.

'We will seek to lift Christ higher, and what the public will hear is clean religious lyrics.'