THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on September 18 in the years identified:

1962:a

Jamaica becomes

member of the United Nations (UN) by the vote of the General Assembly. Jamaica’s permanent representative to the UN, Egerton Richardson, will take his place among the delegates from all the member nations and will speak for Jamaica in the deliberations of the world body. Jamaica’s representative will be afforded the best possible opportunity of political, social and cultural intercourse with representatives from every sector of the globe.

1964:and

The Foreign Nationals

Commonwealth Citizens Employment Bill is passed by the Senate and will be marked by a bipartisan attack on the employment policies of Jamaica’s banks, hotels, airline offices, law firms, the Chamber of Commerce, religious bodies, The University of the West Indies and the Jamaica Omnibus Services Ltd. The bill is unanimously passed with six government amendments, the most important being the one making work permits unnecessary for people who have worked and lived in Jamaica for a minimum of nine months.

1968:Water

storage in the Corporate Area continues to increase. The Water Commission states that there are 441.8 million gallons in the two reservoirs; 350 million in Hermitage Dam and 91.8 million gallons in Mona Reservoir, the result of showers on Monday, September 16, and Tuesday, September 17. On Monday, 1.23 inches fell in the Hermitage catchment and 72 parts at Hope. On Tuesday, 57 parts fell at Hermitage and 84 parts at Hope. The Hope River flow is bringing in daily about six million gallons, 2.25 million gallons of which go into Mona Reservoir and 3.75 million gallons into the Hope filter plant. The output has dropped and is reported to be 24.18 million gallons a day.

– THE GLEANER ARCHIVES