THIS DAY IN OUR PAST
The following events took place on May 11 in the years identified:
1970:Pendersen, Preben Ruis
managing director of Golf Beach Inn Hotel Ltd, states that his company plans to start construction of a hotel in the Cardiff Hall development area by the end of May 1970. Investment in this hotel, which will be built to cater specifically for charter flights from Europe and elsewhere, will be in the region of $400,000 and the 66-room hotel is expected to be in operation by the beginning of January 1971. Pendersen, who is from Denmark, owns what is known as an Impressario Bureau in that country, booking entertainment for radio, television and clubs in Denmark and internationally. He says he has been to Jamaica on four previous occasions surveying the possibilities of tourist charter flights to Jamaica. So far, his company has undertaken a training programme for Jamai-cans, and four women are being trained in Denmark and reported to be doing well. Twelve more Jamaicans will be going in June and July 1970, and it is planned to give 20 Jamaicans a two-year course of training in Denmark in the hotel business. 1988:The
University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, is to offer a degree in environmental science, Madge Greenland, deputy dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, discloses. Greenland tells The Gleaner that UWI will begin offering the three-year BSc degree in environmental science in October 1988. The UWI has been offering several courses dealing with the environment, but this is the first time that a degree option in environmental science has been developed, she says. Most Jamaican science students have studied at the UWI. The total number of Jamaican graduates from the university in science, agriculture and engineering up to 1987 is natural sciences 2,742, agriculture 27, land engineering 829.
– The Gleaner Archives
Today’s Gem
“Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.”