THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on February 1 in the years identified:

1982:Compton Rodney, formerly managing director of National Hotels and Properties Ltd, takes over as chief executive of the Caribbean Cement Company. Rodney assumes temporary responsibility for the company’s management and finance as a result of the resignations of the managing director, Whilston D. Taylor, and the financial controller, Milton Rainford. Taylor was appointed managing director of the company on July 1, 1980. 1982:Telephone

A Jamaica Company (JTC) news release states that telephone service to the Red Hills section of the Corporate Area is disrupted because of a fault which developed in the Jamaica Telephone Company’s circuits linking the area with the rest of the island network. As a result of the fault, Red Hills telephone customers cannot call out, and no calls can be received from other areas. However, they are able to call each other. JTC technicians are carrying out the repairs and it is expected that service will be restored soon. 1987:Jamaica’s

tennis ace Noel Rutherford loses a tennis match at the Sans Souci hotel, but the 21year-old Jamaican wins the hearts of many and the support of those who could contribute to his development as a top international star. Playing in the final of the Ocho Rios-Sans Souci tournament, Rutherford scared the daylights out of Sweden’s Mikael Pernfors, the world’s number 10-ranked tennis player, before bowing out 5-7, 6-4. 7-5. The Jamaican, rated by many as the most gifted Jamaica player ever, gave hope of a pulling off an upset when he won the first set, and again when he led 4-1 in the decisive third. 1993:Bank Chairman of the

of Nova Scotia Jamaica Ltd, C.E. Ritchie, says 1993 will be a year of “gradual recovery” from the present international economic recession. He says that amid increasing globalisation, Jamaica’s prospects are “fairly encouraging”. Ritchie makes those remarks as he delivers an address at the bank’s annual general meeting at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, New Kingston.

– The Gleaner Archives