THIS DAY IN OUR PAST
The following events took place on June 27 in the years identified:
1965:Clement
Tavares, minister of housing, accompanied by USAID adviser in housing Neal Goodson and six officers from the Ministry and Department of Housing, leave Jamaica by Pan American plane for Venezuela on the first leg of a tour to study housing conditions. Tavares and party will also visit Mexico and Colombia before returning to Jamaica. They will observe lowincome housing projects and will go into such questions as housing legislation, housing finance, management and related problems. Other members of the party are Noel Fraser, principal assistant Secretary; H.B. Bent, principal assistant secretary; Roy Alexander, acting principal assistant secretary; Douglas Carter, executive engineer; Rupert Bond, chief architect; and Paul Thompson, assistant director of housing. 1970:fired A 21-gun salute is
at 6 p.m., at King’s House, to mark the 78th birthday of Governor General Clifford Campbell. A small reception follows the gun salute, at which Campbell and Lady Campbell are hosts to a number of guests – chiefly representatives of the military and constabulary. Those attending include Herbert Duffus and Lady Duffus; Ken Mascoll, acting chief of staff of the Jamaica Defence Force; Dunstan Robinson; Rudolph Green; Police Commissioner A. Gordon Langdon and Assistant Commissioner Owen Stephenson; Lady Mordecai and Neville Smith. 1993:Zimbabwe’s
minister of state for employment creation and cooperatives, Fay Chung, arrives in Jamaica to participate in a threeday conference on micro-enterprise development which begins on June 28. Chung tells The Gleaner that the Zimbabwean government devised a five-year plan for employment creation and that the conference will be very relevant in terms of her country’s initiative to have more young people employed. “We are looking at cooperatives so that we have a situation where more workers can own their own farms and industry,” she says. “We also want to assist lowincome people who cannot access bank loans to start businesses.”
– The Gleaner Archives