THIS DAY IN OUR PAST
The following events took place on March 10 in the years identified:
1950 :Alexander Sir William Bustamante announces that at meetings of the Jamaica Labour Party over the past four weeks, discussions had centred on the unemployment situation in the island, and plans are being made on how industry can be expanded, how a greater system of land settlement can be instituted, and how a change can be made to effect the processing or refining in Jamaica of produce now being shipped to England and Canada for processing, such as sugar, pimento and ginger. Bustamante makes this announcement during comments as to his attitude toward the resolution moved by Norman Washington Manley, People’s National Party leader in the House of Representatives, calling for the setting up of a 5-man select committee to study and recommend means to provide more employment throughout the island. 1974:Negotiations between the Government and bauxite and alumina companies, with a view to reviewing and restructuring the contracts on which the companies operate, are scheduled to begin on March 18, an announcement from the Prime Minister’s Office says. The negotiations are to follow a little over two months a declaration made by Prime Minister Michael Manley at the beginning of the year. This was that the conditions the island and the whole world face with regard to fuel oil prices, the world food shortage and world inflation generally abrogated the terms under which certain contracts were entered into, and that a renegotiation of them is urgent. 1974:ends The Cabinet, which
its three-day retreat at the Sheraton-Kingston, congratulates the Prime Minister for his role in the formation of the International Bauxite Association (IBA), which will be headquartered in Kingston. A release from the Prime Minister’s office states that at the start of the first session, the Cabinet notes that the world’s leading bauxite producing nations have decided to bring the IBA into being as soon as the founding members have completed the procedure required by their constitutions in order to give effect to their membership.
– The Gleaner Archives