THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on March 29 in the years identified:

1967:

The New York Salvation Army Youth Band arrives in Montego Bay for a series of performances in various parts of Jamaica. Heading the group are Divisional Commander Brigadier William Berry, Youth Secretary Captain Robert Bearchell, and Bandmaster Derek Smith. Among those at the airport to meet the 42 members of the group are Walter Morris, Aston Davis, Roy Smith, John Stewart from Lucea Presbyterian Church, Hubert Hector, and Gwendolyn Daley. After official formalities, the band and accompanying officers proceed directly to Lucea where they lead in a festival of music in the Lucea Anglican Church Hall. Among the young people in the band is one Jamaican, Donald Ricketts, who is studying mechanical engineering at New York University.

1984:

Prime Minister Edward Seaga calls on export manufacturers to make this the year to open up new markets to make the sector a net earner of foreign exchange and a greater employer of labour. Seaga is giving the main address at the official opening ceremony of Expo ‘84’ at the National Arena. The exposition of locally manufactured goods and the services linked to them will be open to the public from today to April 8, 1984. It is described by the organisation as the “largest industrial exhibition ever to be staged i n Jamaica by the productive sector”. It is put on jointly by the Jamaica Manufacturers’ Associations and the Jamaica Exporters’ Association. Seaga says he will be meeting with manufacturers under the leadership of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica to explore the possibilities of a dynamic thrust now being mobilised by the export, manufacturing sector in order to make use of the opportunities and potential that now exists.

1995:

The Government appeals to the private sector to assist in ensuring the success of the programme designed primarily to deal with Jamaica’s squatting problem.