THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on February 3 in the years identified:

1952: Oliver Lyttleton, secretary of state for the colonies, announces that Donald Charles MacGillivray, colonial secretary, Jamaica, is appointed deputy high commissioner in the Federation of Malaya. As previously announced, the post of deputy high commissioner, which has been created with the assent of Their Highnesses the Malaya Rulers and with the approval of the Federation Legislative Council, will be for the period of the emergency only. 1959: Communication Minister A.G.S. Coombs is the first voice to go through on the Jamaica Telephone Company’s VHP radio link between Kingston and Montego Bay, which comes into operation. The minister’s inaugural call to Montego Bay mayor, Councillor W.G.S. Vernon, is made after the service was declared open by the president of the Jamaica Telephone Comapany, Alexander Roger, who comes to Jamaica from London specifically for that occasion. 1965: Princess Alice arrives in Jamaica aboard a private twin-engine turbo- prop Grumman, the property of Texaco Ltd. She is accompanied by her lady-in-waiting, her personal maid, and Max E. Crawford, president of the Texaco Oil Co. Their Excellencies the Governor General Clifford Campbell and Lady Campbell meet the princess at the Palisadoes International Airport. 1984: Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Edward Seaga says the Government is moving to reduce the fiscal budget deficit and to make gains on the balance of payments situation, which should lead to reduced emphasis being placed on growth in 1984. The country has no alternative but to come to grips with the deficit in the fiscal budget and its negative balance of payments situation, if it is to be viable and benefit from programmes in place, which are already showing tangible results, Seaga says.