THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on August 26 in the years identified:

1970: Five members of the visiting Brazilian trade mission call at the Ministry of Trade and Industry and holds a brief discussion with the parliamentary secretaries in the ministry, Alva Ross and David Lindo Jr, and members of the ministry staff. Opening the discussion, Ross tells the members of the mission that at present trade between Brazil and Jamaica is very much in favour of Brazil. In 1969, for example, Ross says, Brazil’s exports to Jamaica amounted to $247,000 while Jamaica only exported to Brazil goods to the value of $262. Ross expresses the hope that future trade development between the two countries will be better balanced.

1975: Minister of Finance David Coore leaves Norman Manley Airport by ALM jet for the Commonwealth Finance Ministers’ meeting in Georgetown, Guyana. A special news release by APP says “Jamaica’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, David Coore, will tell the Commonwealth Finance Ministers Conference in Georgetown, Guyana, on August 27 how Jamaica views the report by a Commonwealth Expert Group, appointed at the Heads of Government meeting in Kingston in May, to study the new world economic order and come up with specific recommendations. Coore’s address is one of the highlights of the conference, not only because of Jamaica’s and Prime Minister Manley’s dynamic role in reviving the Commonwealth, articulating the new economic order strategy, and the concord of Kingston, but also because of different views on dispositions of the report.”