THIS DAY IN OUR PAST
The following events took place on June 16 in the years identified:
1980:The
new national minimum wage of $30 per 40 hour-work week comes into effect. This new wage, announced by Prime Minister Michael Manley in his 1980-81 Budget Speech to Parliament on May 22, was approved by the House of Representatives on Tuesday, June 10. The increased minimum wage will not affect workers under the Special Employment Programme. They will continue to receive the former minimum of $26.40. 1987:arrangements Strict security
are put in place for the printing of Common Entrance Examination papers by the Government Printing Office, Minister of the Public Service Clifton Stone, asssures the House of Representatives. Stone, who is speaking in the Sectoral Debate in the House, says that suggestions had been made which could implicate the printing office in “a rather sordid episode”. Minister of Education Neville Gallimore previously indicated the papers had been leaked from the Government Printing Office and “irregularities” occurred in examination results, causing their nonpublication to date. Close to 300 mem1999:bers
of the Jamaica Civil Service Association (JCSA) vote unanimously to “shut down the civil service” on June 17 if more than 20 customs officers, who were either taken off duty but not dismissed, or controversially transferred to other departments up to nine years ago, are not reinstated in their original positions by today. A resolution passed by the civil servants also call for the immediate removal of Commissioner of Customs Allison Moore from her position, on the grounds that she has repeatedly defied lawful orders to reinstate the customs officers. The civil servants, who meet in an emergency session at their Jacisera Park headquarters in St Andrew, are told that a number of the customs officers involved had been on full pay for up to four years without any charges being laid against them.
– The Gleaner Archives
Today’s Gem
“What we can or cannot do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.” – Anthony Robbins