THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on August 16 in the years identified:

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to assist with the work of the National Committee for the Inter-American Year of the Family, and for public awareness of its role and objectives, is made by Princess Lawes, parliamentary secretary for youth and community development, and chairman of the committee. At a press conference at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, New Kingston, Lawes says that because of budgetary constraints, the committee will need $600,000 to help with its work which, she says, will continue into 1984, until research is completed and recommendations made to the Government. Lawes, who also seeks to attract public awareness to the role and objectives of the committe, says that its work is “a positive step in the right direction” and will not only assist in building strong families, “but a strong and stable nation” as well. 1983:force Members of the police

begin returning to work, ending their six-day sickout, on the instruction of the central Executive of the Police Federation after the executive had a meeting with Hugh Shearer, deputy prime minister, in his acting capacity as minister of national security and justice, and with the Commissioner of Police, Joseph Williams. A “new twist enters the proceedings, arising from the meetin”, Federation Chairman Sergeant D. Ricardo Buchanan, tells The Gleaner. As a result of the “new twist”, he says, “we are going to propose something” to the full meeting of the federation at 2 p.m. on August 17, at the federation headquarters on East Street, Kingston. A similar emergency meeting of the Federation on Thursday, August 11, had voted to take “immediate positive action” in support of wage and fringe benefits demands on the Government.