THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on September 12 in the years identified:

1963:Club The Kingston Rotary

announces the launching of its most ambitious programme so far – the Island Beautification Programme – to be run in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Montego Bay, the Jamaican Junior Chamber and all government and private organisations and individuals who will cooperate. The programme receives the patronage of Governor General Clifford Campbell, Prime Minister Norman Manley and all government ministers pledge their support. In announcing the project at the luncheon meeting of the club at the Myrtle Bank Hotel, President Ferdie Martin says that it is enormous and completely national in scope. For it to succeed, it must be comprehensive, not only as a cleanup, paint-up campaign, but a movement covering the cities and towns, the highways, villages and even private homes. 1990:across Thousands of people

the island will start paying more on the buses on September 13, 1990. The increases on fares average about 20 per cent. The fares for schoolchildren (except those in the rural areas), handicapped people and pensioners will not go up. Minister of Transport Robert Pickersgill announces the new fares at a press conference at The Jamaica Pegasus. In the Corporate Area alone, more than 200,000 people use the buses every day and will each have to pay at least 40 cents and up to $1 a day more in getting to and from their destinations. The minister says the increases represent an adjustment to certain operational costs, rather than a general increase such as the one which was implemented in November 1989. The operational costs upon which these increases have been based include gasolene, tyres, tubes and oil.