THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on August 11 in the years identified:

1987:Leader

of the House J.A.G. Smith tells Parliament that the ministerial order making Monday, August 17, 1987 a public holiday in the parish of St Ann in honour of Marcus Garvey is signed. The minister announces this while speaking in the second leg of the Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives. Garvey, the first national hero, was born in St Ann. 1987:Company The Cigarette

of Jamaica increases its sponsorship for the 1987-88 Craven ‘A’ National Premier League football competition to $250,000. The announcement is made by Dudley Hendricks, marketing manager of Cigarette Company, at a press conference hosted at the Courtleigh Hotel. The sponsorship for the competition organised by the Jamaica Football Federation is increased by $70,000. 1988:Insurance British-American

Company, established in Jamaica for almost 60 years, bows out with the acquisition of its business by the seven-yearold Dyoll Life Ltd. “It has been our policy to seek out new areas in which to invest and grow,” Oswald Dunn, chairman of the Dyoll Group, says. He says the group has resolved “to provide a comprehensive range of services”. 1988:a Spanish Town, with

population of more than 130,000 people, is to get a $15-million improvement to its water supply systems. The 1.9 million gallons it now gets each day will be increased to four million. Contracts for upgrading the treatment plant are signed at the office of theMministry of Local Government by Neville Lewis, Bruce Golding, MP for St Catherine Central, and Horace Davidson, managing director of the Carib Engineering Corp.

– The Gleaner Archives