THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on March 28 in the years identified:

1970 Over 20 Caribbean and Central American countries are to attend a Cultural and Conservation Conference at the University of the West Indies, Mona, from July 29 to August 4, the Ministry of Finance and Planning says. The conference is to be sponsored by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Plans for Jamaica to host the conference began during the recent visit to the island of UNESCO Secretary General Malcolm Adiseshiah. It is considered that the Caribbean area can benefit from such a conference at which the needs of the area in the various fields of conservation and cultural development can be determined and priorities established. Discussions at the conference will fall under three headings: archaeology, ecology, and folk dance.

1990 Plans for the celebration of Farmers’ Month is announced at a news briefing in the boardroom of the Jamaica Agricultural Society (JAS) at Church Street, Kingston, by Senator Courtney Fletcher, president of the JAS. Farmers’ Month activities will run from the official launching in the JAS boardroom on April 4 to April 26. Senator Fletcher says that the transfer of agricultural technology is the principal concern of the JAS, which intends to fully explore the opportunities that technological progress in farming has opened up. These include the use of soil and water resources, crop and livestock rearing, pest and disease control and machinery. The JAS will be imploring farmers to grasp the opportunities created by these advances in agricultural technology against the background of the National Production Drive, he says.

– The Gleaner Archives