THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on April 25 in the years identified:

1960:from It is officially announced

King’s House, David H. Coore, city barrister, is appointed a member of the Legislative Council in place of Philip M. Sherlock, CBE, who recently resigned from the council. Coore, 35, is a member of the executive committee of the People’s National Party (PNP) and his nomination is made on the recommendation of the governing PNP, just as in the case of Sherlock’s. Coore won the Jamaica Scholarship in 1942 at the age of 17 and graduated from McGill University in 1946 with first class honours in economics.

1986:Seaga Prime Minister Edward

intervenes in the junior doctors dispute which has disrupted hospital services since last week. At a meeting called by the prime minister at Jamaica House, a formula to break the work-to-rule impasse is put to the doctors. They are to consider the proposals this weekend even as emergency service provided by consultants keep the hospital services going. The consultants, however, cannot sustain “continuous emergency cover” after next week Tuesday, April 29, 1986. It is proposed at the Jamaica House meeting that the Junior Doctors Association accept that the dispute was properly before the Industrial Disputes Tribunal; however, the association will request the IDT under Section 12.5 of the Labour

Relations and Industrial Disputes Act to allow the parties to seek a settlement by negotiation or conciliation; and the Ministry of the Public Service will not oppose that request.

1995:Residents and business operators in the vicinity of North Avenue near Swallowfield Road in Kingston are hopping mad about a ‘temporary’ sewage measure that was taken by the National Water Commission along the road some five months ago, but which is still nowhere near completion. Reports indicate that late 1994 a blockage was detected along the sewer main running down North Avenue, resulting in sewage backing up in the nearby Stadium Gardens and Swallowfield Road areas. Contractors were promptly put on the job to correct the problem, but their initial two-day assignment has now been stretched out to five months.