THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on May 31 in the years identified:

1960:Moyston, David Ian solictor of Morant Bay, is elected new Federal Member of Parliament for the parish of St Thomas. He is elected unopposed at the by-election to fill the vacancy created by the 1959 resignation of Robert Lightbourne, who quit Federal politics to contest the constituency of Western St Thomas for the Jamaica Labour Party in the general election for the House of Representatives. Three documen1976:tary

films on Cuba are shown at the Carib cinema. The arrangement for this showing is done by Jamaican-Cuban Friendship Association and the Embassy of the Republic of Cuba. There are three films, the first on the 70th birthday of Nicolas Guillen (in English), the second, Rompiendo la Rutina, (Breaking the Routine) in Spanish, and the third, El Programa del Mocada, (English). The documentary films are produced by the Cuban Film Industry, an institution launched and developed after the Cuban Revolution in 1959. Showing of these films to Jamaicans, it states, is mainly to develop a clearer understanding on the political scene and lifestyle of Cuba. The films show the cultural and economic development of Cuba and what it was like before the revolution in 1959, which started an era of development in housing, education, medical and health care. Poetry and Cuban music are shown and read to show a similarity in culture between Jamaica and Cuba. Present at the showing is Ramon Fez Ferro, the Cuban ambassador to Jamaica. Louis Osbourne, the Cuban attaché at the embassy, welcomes those who attend.