THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

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

1976:awarded Six students are

Jamaican Government Scholarships on the basis of their performance in the 1976 ‘A’ level Examinations of the Cambridge Overseas Syndicate. The Jamaica Scholarship (male) is awarded to Deveraux Chen of St George’s College and the Jamaica Scholarship (female) to Yvette Delph of Alpha Academy. In the case of Munro’s George Jobson, son of Mr and Mrs Cecil Jobson of Reynolds Jamaica Mines Ltd, Lydford, so outstanding is his performance that although ineligible by age for the Jamaica Scholarship, he is awarded a Special Scholarship. Aware that he is too young for the Jamaica Scholarship, George applied to Princeton University, New Jersey, to which he is already admitted. Winner of the Jamaica Independent Scholarship (Open) is Derrick Darby of Wolmer’s Boys, while the Independent Scholarship (female) goes to Marcia Robertson of Westwood High School. The Jamaica Centenary (male) has been awarded to Lancelot Green of St George’s. 1987:society The Jamaican

is undisciplined and public transportation in the Corporate Area and its environs needs cooperation to overcome the problems, says Joan Porteous of Diamond Transport Limited. A major transportation package holder, she is speaking at the opening of a four-day training programme for drivers and conductors in the Kingston Metropolitan Region Public Transportation System, organised by the Transport Authority at the Corporate Development Centre, Camp Road, Kingston. Theme of the programme is: ‘We Put People First’. Porteous says the privatisation of the public-owned Metropolitan Transport System is a good thing, but the partial policing of the Jamaica Omnibus Services Limited is not making it work as it should.

– The Gleaner Archives