THIS DAY IN OUR PAST
The following events took place on January 8 in the years identified:
1993:the A joint meeting of Jamaica Teachers’ Association’s Central Executive and Salaries and Conditions of Service Committee receives a report from the negotiating team regarding the Government’s offer on the 1992 salaries claim. The meeting studies the offer and compares it with the recommendations of the Permanent Salaries Review Board and decides to await a final offer which is expected to be made at a meeting with the minister of the public service on January 12. The association is scheduling parish meetings on January 14 and 15, to Inform the teachers about the offer. 1998:voter The remainder of the identification cards are to be distributed house-tohouse by the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ), public education officer Neville Graham says. The EOJ is at the same time making corrections to the voters’ list following complaints that electors’ names had been omitted. The EOJ has stopped giving out the ID cards at the offices of the returning officer in each constituency, because that process was too time-consuming, Graham says. “We’re looking at full house-to-house distribution because it has proven to be an administrative humbug to check through all the cards to find the ones for people who come to the offices,” he states. Graham says many persons flocked the offices to get their ID cards and the EOJ was having difficulty accommodating them.
1998:Two top Kenyans are among more than 100 overseas runners who will participate in the fifth Carib Cement Jamaica Marathon to be held on Sunday, February 15, starting at 6 a.m. at the National Stadium. Brian Breese, sports administrator at Carib Cement Company, provides an update of entries, athletes and countries who will compete. The runners coming are from the United States (40), France (21), Austria (2), Barbados (2), Belgium (1), Kenya (2), Mexico (3), Norway (2), Poland (2), Russia (1), Denmark (1), Sweden (1), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (2), Hungary (1), Ethiopia (3), New Zealand (1) and Italy (1). Breese says all current and previous champions are expected to take part.