THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on April 10 in the years identified:

1963:Sangster Finance Minister Donald

presents Jamaica’s biggest Budget to date, passing the £50,000,000 barrier for the first time with an estimated gross expenditure of £55,215, 497. This comprises a net expenditure of £50,974,894 and appropriations-in-aid or departmental revenues to be spent of £4,092,575. Net capital expenditure is set at £13,505,852. Sangster says that there is also available a sum of roughly £1,500,000 from the Agricultural and Housing Funds, making it possible for the Government to spend up to £56,500,900 before coming back to the House with Supplementary Estimates. He says in his resume of the year’s activities that whereas 1962’s Budget was a stock-taking Budget, this year’s is an action Budget for the reconstruction of Jamaica’s economy. 1963:School The Trench Town Senior

is to become a comprehensive secondary school as soon as legal requirements are complied with. This is announced by Minister of Education Edwin Allen at the annual conference of the Jamaica Union of Teachers at Excelsior School. The minister says that a headmaster with a good university degree will be appointed in due course. The announcement comes during a speech by the minister in which he emphasises several times that he is in favour of experimenting in matters educational and that the Trench Town Comprehensive School is an example of this to see if the comprehensive-school idea will work in such an area.