THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

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

1967: Luckoo, Joseph Alexander ex-chief justice of Guyana, is appointed as the sixth judge to the Court of Appeal in Jamaica. The appointment is made under Act 17 of 1967, the Judicature (Appellate Jurisdiction Amendment) Act of 1967, assented to by the governor general on July 11, 1967. Under the act, provision is made for the appointment of an additional judge to the Court of Appeal so that the position is that the present Court of Appeal consists now of six judges and a president.

1989: Downtown The Rotary Club of Kingston is to launch a Small Appliance Servicing course at the EXED Community College, Mountain View Avenue, Kingston, with an initial emphasis on the training of youth in the immediate locale. This is disclosed by David Muirhead, president of the Rotary Club of Downtown Kingston, at the club’s luncheon at Oceana Hotel, King Street. Burchell Whiteman, minister of state in the Ministry of Education, says the servicing course will refine the technical and vocational skills of the participants and is particularly appropriate in the context of the new small businesses entrepreneurial climate in the country. In addition, he says, it will provide an answer to the problem of servicing small appliances “because as a society we cannot operate on the basis of planned obsolescence”. For the new course, Whiteman suggests the targeting of all-age and secondary school-leavers as well as unemployed youth.

1990: The south coastal town of Savanna-la-Mar, from which the majority of the more than 70 typhoid cases have come, is to benefit from a major clean-up and equipment and staff to be sent to the hospital there.