THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on March 15 in the years identified:

1967:

Special prayers for the success of the new education programme are offered at a service at the Ministry of Education. The service is jointly conducted by the Anglican Bishop of Jamaica, Percival Gibson, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Kingston John J. McEleney, the Bishop of the Moravian Church, S.U. Hastings and the president of the Jamaica Council of Churches, M.E.W. Sayers. Bishop McEleney reads the lesson, the text for which is taken from Proverbs 8:21. During the service, songs are rendered by a mixed school choir, accompanied by Lloyd Hall, senior education officer at the piano. At the commencement, Minister of Education Edwin Allen, at whose request the service is held, tells the gathering that he had invited church leaders and leaders in education to join in prayer that day because education is concerned not only with the moulding of intellects but with the spirits and souls of children.

1967:

Prime Minister Donald Sangster makes final assignments in his first Cabinet and announces that the immediate emphasis of the Government’s programme will be on education and agricultural development. Aside from Minister of Education, Edwin Allen, a minister of state and a parliamentary secretary are assigned to the Ministry of Education. They are Senator Hector Wynter, minister of state, and Senator Arthur Burt, parliamentary secretary.