THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on January 17 in the years identified:

1989:minister Neville Gallimore, of education, says that there is a need to place greater emphasis on the teaching of African studies in schools. “Let our young people know where we are coming from, let us take pride in being who we are, because we are indeed unique,” he says. Gallimore, who officially launches the West African History Workshops, sponsored by the Nigerian High Commission at the Jamaica Conference Centre, Duke Street, downtown Kingston, tells the audience of history teachers and university lecturers that secondary education in years past emphasised Britain and the empire, while largely ignoring the region’s African heritage. 1990:of Some 140 representatives

more than 20 local and international governmental and non-governmental agencies participate in the two-day seminar on national parks and protection area development in Jamaica, which ends in Montego Bay. The seminar, sponsored by the Jamaica Conservation and Development Trust, is opened by. Violet Neilson, parliamentary secretary for development, planning and production, who underscores government’s commitment to the conservation of the environment and the development of Jamaica’s natural resources. Neilson, who is deputising for P.J. Patterson, deputy prime minister and minister of development, planning and production, says that US $2.8 million is to be spent on a Protected Areas Resource Conservation Project (PARC) under an agreement signed between the Jamaican Government and the United States Agency for International Development in August 1989.