THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on January 11 in the years identified:

1955:is In Jamaica on holiday

Ernest Briginshaw, international representative of the United Steel Workers of Canada who fly in from Toronto. Briginshaw, who is paying his first visit, says he plans to remain for about a month. He is staying at the Mimosa Lodge, Half-Way Tree Road. The Canadian Union official is stationed in St Catherine’s, Ontario. Ken Sterling, of the National Workers Union in Jamaica, meets him at the Palisadoes Airport. 1998:in Hundreds of businesses

downtown Kingston are being blamed for reneging on promises to help boost the area’s profile as a clean, safe and viable community, leaving a relative few to bear the brunt of that responsibility. According to Michael Ammar Jr, president of the Downtown Kingston Management District (DMKD), only 51 of more than 1,000 businesses downtown have been making tangible contributions to the area’s revival. The DMKD, which was formed following a spate of robberies, plus the shooting deaths of two businessmen in 1995, works along with the Kingston Restoration Company (KRC) and the Urban Development Corporation. 1998:boards Failure by school

to complete paperwork on teachers, some who have taught for more than 30 years, is preventing many from receiving pension payments up to three years after retirement. The Gleaner understands that some teachers whose documents have been completed and sent to the Government a year in advance of retirement are still unable to get their pensions. – GLEANER ARCHIVES