THIS DAY IN OUR PAST
The following events took place on April 4 in the years identified:
1986: More teachers than normal are applying to the Ministry of Education for one-year leave without pay. The leave is usually to enable them to go abroad. This is stated by Leo Goodin, Director of School Services at the Ministry of Education, as he addresses teachers attending a leadership workshop sponsored by the Jamaica Teachers Association, in collaboration with the World Confede-ration of Organizations of the Teaching Profession, at the Passley Gardens Teachers College, in Portland. Reasons given by those applying for leave is usually that they had to visit and stay with relatives who were ill, they had to attend to private affairs or they had to go abroad for economic reasons. The Ministry, Goodin says, usually gives the go-ahead for the teachers to obtain the leave. 1993:Greater
accountability and making the health sector more efficient are some of the priorities Minister of Health Easton Douglas says will be the focus of his Ministry over the next five years, if he returns as Minister of Health. Accountability for public hospital budgets and the operations of hospital facilities will be the main focus with emphasis being placed on hospital administrators and chief executive officers. People will also be able to expect more efficiency in public health as Douglas promises that focus will be placed on human resource development dealing especially with health workers who deal specifically with the public. Douglas who is speaking with The Gleaner during a tour of the Bustamante Hospital for Children says he is expecting an increase for the health sector from the upcoming National Budget, to be announced early May 1993. A bigger slice of the budget, he says, is vital in order for the relevant improvements to be made to the health sector and other outstanding matters to be done in order to make the sector viable.
Today’s Gem “You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’” – George Bernard Shaw