THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on August 27 in the years identified:

1954:hundred Approximately four convicts took control of the General Penitentiary when they were let out of their cells by a small band of fellow convicts who broke loose whilst being unlocked by guards. The convicts first set upon some of their own number who they charged with being ‘informers’ and later attacked guards and other employees.

1962:Portfolio, Minister without Senator Hugh Shearer’s appointment as Leader or Government in the Senate is approved by Cabinet. At age 39, Shearer becomes the youngest politician to be appointed Leader of Government Business in the island’s Upper House of Parliament.

1963:airline Jamaica’s national officially comes into existence with ratification of an agreement between the Jamaican Government, British Overseas Airways Corporation in Association with a Steamship Co Ltd and the British West Indian Airways. A prime object of the partnership is the doubling of tourism in the island in five years.

1967:of Pro Vice-Chancellor the University of the West Indies, Professor Leslie Robinson, claims that Jamaica’s educational system is failing to produce enough qualified students to enter the university. He further states that the West Indies territories which the university served were not keeping pace with the normal student intake projection of the University.

– THE GLEANER ARCHIVES

TODAY’S GEM

“De gal cyan wash an’ de gal cyan cook. So sen’ she back to she Mumma-O!”