THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on October 14 the years identified:

1990:be “Oneness seems to escaping us although so tenaciously cherished as an ideal,” says Samuel Vassell, pastor of the Holiness Christian Church on Bethune Avenue, Kingston. He is addressing the congregation at the National Heritage Week Ecumenical Service at the New Testament Church of God, 65 Waltham Park Road, Kingston 11. Vassell identifies sexual adoration, social antagonism, spiritual adventurism, and stewardship abuse as factors which made oneness at its best a powerful ideal and at its worst a fleeting illusion. Jamaica, Vassell says, will not have oneness/unity as long as its political parties are characterised by discord, envy, factions, jealousy, selfish ambition, and dissensions.

1990:Industrial The Institute of Managers begins its week of activities with a church service at St Stephen’s United Church, Union Square, Cross Roads, Kingston. Stanley Webley, who conducts the service, stresses that everything on Earth belongs to the Lord, and hence the distinction that some people make between the sacred and the secular is in fact non-existent. Roy Baker, of the institute, speaks briefly about the organisation.

In 1947, two professional bodies of industrial managers merged in the United Kingdom to form one body. 1999:public-health Important functions, including the inspection of imported foods and monitoring of abattoirs, are largely neglected as more than 300 public health inspectors stayed off the job. The inspection of waste water and sidewalk food vending are other areas not attended to as the inspectors demonstrated their disagreement with a reclassification exercise done by the Ministry of Health.