THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on August 10 in the years identified:

1970: An agricultural and economic delegation from Cuba arrives at Palisadoes Airport by special flight in transit to Trinidad. The team consists of eight members headed by Julio Gonzalez Noriega. They are met on arrival by A. Sagba-Aboud, high commissioner for Trinidad and Tobago, and Armando Velazquez, the Cuban consul.

1972: An agreement to form a national farmers’ union to embrace all farm commodity organisations, functioning at island level rather than district or parish level, is arrived at among representatives of eleven farm commodity organisations. The agreement comes at the end of the three-hour meeting in the boardroom at the Jamaica Agricultural Society’s headquarters. Guidelines are also laid down along which the projected structure will go.

1989: The agreement between the Government and United States’ investor John W. Rollins becomes effective. The signature of Deputy Prime Minister P.J. Patterson authorises the Urban Development Corporation to go ahead with the sale of nearly 3,000 acres of land in Montego Bay to Rollins. However, a formal signing ceremony is to be staged in Montego Bay on August 25, 1989 which Rollins is to attend.

1990: Chris Blackwell, chairman of Island Logic, the company seeking to purchase a portion of the Bob Marley Estate, expresses disappointment with the Privy Council’s decision to allow an appeal by beneficiaries to have the sale set aside. Blackwell tells journalists at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel that his company, Island Logic, will have no option but to pull out of the deal if the negotiations have to start again from scratch.