THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on August 12 in the years identified:

1976:

able Jamaica should be to break into the pork export market because of the high standard of the product being produced and because of its comparability in all aspects with pork from European and North American sources, according to a pork expert. He is being interviewed by The Gleaner. Robert Foreshaw of the University of Guelph in Canada, who is currently involved with the production of fact sheets on carcas grading production and breeding for the pig industry, and who is at present attached to the Agricultural Development Corporation, recently commended the high quality of locally produced pork and the high standard which characterises the entire industry.

1979:

Prime Minister Michael Manley arrives in London at the end of his three-day official visit to Mozambique. Manley ends his visit with a tour of the Museum of the Revolution in Maputo and a lengthy meeting with President Samora Machel. At the Museum of the Revolution, the prime minister sees a graphic display of the history of colonialism and slavery in Mozambique, the start and development of the revolutionary movement, the victory over the colonial power and the work being done to construct the modern People’s Republic of Mozambique. Among the exhibits Manley sees is a photograph of himself taken at the United Nations special conference on Zimbabwe and Namibia, held in May 1977, at which he delivered the Keynote address.