The Student's Union of the University of Technology (UTECH) has denied claims by the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) that the row over the private bus service being offered to students was settled.

On Wednesday, obviously upset representatives of the student body called the RJR News Centre insisting that a consensus had not been reached.

According to the UTECH Students Union, the JUTC offered some alternatives which were still being considered by the student body.  

The executive members of the Students Union have been locked in a meeting, following which they said they will issue their own release.

News broke on the weekend that the JUTC had deemed the bus services provided by the UTECH Student Union and the Student's Guild of the University of the West Indies (UWI) illegal.

The JUTC said the student bodies were infringing on its license since it had the exclusive right to operate in the Kingston Metropolitan Transport Region.

Meanwhile, the JUTC is insisting that the students have it wrong.

They say a settlement was arrived at following Tuesday's intervention of Minister of Transport Mike Henry.

  JUTC's Marketing Manager Lenworth Simms claimed both sides agreed that the present system will run until the contracts expire at the end of May.

Following that, the JUTC will implement a service to operate from the University to selected points in the Corporate area and St. Catherine.

"We will be meeting and collaborating on an ongoing basis so we can have other factors ironed out and other agreements clarified. As far as we're concerned we have met and we have agreed and we're (going to) stick by this agreement," Mr. Simms.

He said the state-run bus company is interested in reaching a similar agreement with the Guild of Students at the UWI.

However, he said arrangements have not yet been made for the parties to hold talks.