THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on November 9 in the years identified:

1990:Minister

of Education, Senator Carlyle Dunkley, confirms that an agreement is reached between West Indies Group of University Teachers (WIGUT) and the Mona Campus Grants Committee on pay increases for Mona lecturers. In a statement on the matter, he says, “An agreement is reached between the WIGUT at the Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies and the Negotiating Sub-committee of the Mona Campus Grants Committee, in respect of salary and other benefits for the triennium 1990 to 1993.“The new agreement provides for a salary increase of 121/2 per cent in each of the three years of the triennium and also that the salaries at the Mona Campus will be brought in line with those at Cave Hill in Barbados, the campus which now pays the highest salaries.” 1995:Football

The Jamaica Federation (JFF) is to lodge a formal protest with FIFA, the sport’s governing body, against the Zimbabwe Football Association for failing to honour a two-match arrangement during the Jamaica national team’s aborted African tour. National coach René Simões says on arrival at Norman Manley Airport Zimbabwe “completely destroyed” the team’s historic trip to Africa when the Africans cancelled the scheduled matches after Jamaica arrived in Zambia. An annoyed Simoes says Zimbabwe must be punished by FIFA for “going back on a promise that was made in writing”. 2000:A

fusillade is probably the only term that can be used to describe the Gleaner’s Children’s Own Spelling Bee competition in St Catherine as all the big guns come out to announce their superiority over the other competitors.

– The Gleaner Archives