THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on January 24 in the years identified:

1989:King, Ambassador Peter

Jamaica’s chief trade representative, discloses that orders placed at the first apparel and textile carnivale in 1989 moved Jamaica’s apparel exports from US$2.2 million (JS12.1 million) in 1987 to US$9.3 million (J$51.1 million) in 1988 when he delivers the opening remarks at the JAMPRO-sponsored, Caribbean Fashion Carnivale seminar at the Wyndham Kingston Hotel, Knutsford Boulevard. “It is encouraging progress in the necessary task of diversifying our markets. More Jobs, more money, more profit. The list of countries within Europe, overwhelmed by the steady onslaught of our apparel armies, is encouraging,” King says. 1992:Birmingham, A trade mission from

England, leaves the Island for home, after a five-day visit which mission leader, Graeme De Bracey Marrs describes as encouraging. The Birmingham Chamber has been sending trade missions to Jamaica since 1967, and this is the eleventh such mission. Mr Marrs, who has been part of the missions for the past 20 years, says the group has received “a tremendously warm welcome” everywhere they had been. The mission is brief by JAMPRO, the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce, the Ministry of Production, Mining, and Commerce, as well as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, and the Bank of Jamaica. 1997:calls Senator Donald Rhodd

on the Government to put in place legislation and regulations which will facilitate the development of a health tourism sector, providing conventional health services, cosmetic surgery, addiction treatment, obesity clinics and retirement communities to people from abroad.