THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

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

1976:provide An agreement to a grant of $375,000 to develop and improve the health-care system in the county of Cornwall is signed between the US Agency for International Developmental (USAID) and the Government of Jamaica. The agreement concerns a 3-year project to make available technical assistance to the Cornwall County Health Project, which is separate from the loan agreement signed recently between Jamaica and the World Bank. The signing takes place at the Ministry of Health and Environmental Control with minister Kenneth McNeill, signing for Jamaica and Charles Campbell, USAID director, for his organisation. Campbell explains that the new joint healthcare project has been under preparation for some time and he is “very pleased” that it has come to fruition for Cornwall, and that it will eventually be extended through the rest of the country. 1990:The Government changes its motor vehicle policy again. Now, as of Monday, July 2, any Jamaican, at home or abroad, can bring in a motor vehicle once certain conditions are satisfied. The CIF (cost, insurance and freight) value of the vehicle, in hard currency (especially US dollars), must be lodged at the Bank of Jamaica, the central bank, to the account of the Jamaica Commodity Trading Company, the Government’s import agency. Second, the equivalent of the import duties and related costs associated with the importation must be deposited, in hard currency, at the BOJ. “This transaction must be by telegraphic transfer or banker’s draft.” Robert Pickersgill, minister of public utilities and transport, says in a statement in the House of Representatives.

– The Gleaner Archives