THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

The following events took place on July 5 in the years identified:

A £4-million recla1967:mation

project aimed primarily at easing the high density of the city’s population is announced by Finance and Planning Minister Edward Seaga. The project, which involves the reclamation of some 220 acres of land in the Dawkins Pond area and the building of a £1-million causeway to stretch across the harbour from Newport West to the Fort Augusta peninsula, is being undertaken by Foreshore Development Company, a Matalon enterprise.

1981:Manley The 1981 Norman

Award in the field of literature is made to novelist and journalist Victor Stafford Reid, former chairman of the Jamaica National Trust Commission. The award is given at the Creative Arts Centre of the University of the West Indies, Mona. The Norman Manley Foundation, which makes the award, evolved out of the early donations contributed to the Norman Manley Memorial Fund established by The

Gleaner Company Limited soon after his death in 1969.

1983:Opposition An amendment to the

censure motion against the Government is passed in the House of Representatives as Government members vote to congratulate the prime minister, Edward Seaga, in his capacity of minister of finance, on the latest economic measures introduced to “safeguard the economy”. The amendment is taken after a debate in which opposition members argued that the censure motion should be disposed of before any amendment.