THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on March 2 in the years identified:

1956:financial Frank Williams, secretary, and J. Leslie Cundall, attorney general, who were advisers to the Jamaica delegation at the London Federation talks, return by Pan American Clipper from Miami. After the Federation talks in London, Williams and Cundall attended to certain government business in England. On the return trip to Jamaica, they meet Noel Nethersole, minister of finance, in New York and had discussions with the United Nations organisation and US government agencies in Washington.

1977:begin American Airlines operations in Jamaica with the arrival of some 60 passengers on its 707 flight from New York. The airline enters Jamaica under a bilateral agreement between this country and the United States and will replace Pan American Airways, which ceased operations in Jamaica March 1976. On hand to welcome airline personnel at the Norman Manley International Airport are the American ambassador, Sumner Gerard; Horace Clarke, minister of transport, Jack Stephenson, parliamentary secretary for tourism; Mayor of Kingston Councillor George Mason; Roc Pavesi of the Tourism Product Development Company; Pat Rodgers, general manager of the Airport Authority; and Glen Bloomfield, president of the Jamaica United Travellers Association.

– The Gleaner Archives