THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

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

1977:Party The Jamaica Labour

(JLP) formally launches what it calls ‘The Progressive Farmers Association.’ According to a JLP release, the association is to defend the farmers of Jamaica. The release continues: For some time now, farmers have lacked the voice to express their great dissatisfaction with the present associations, and additionally to bring to the public’s notice rampant victimisation which is taking place. Some 150 farmers gather at Belmont Road and addressed by the executive and leadership of the party. The prime mover, Percy Broderick, deals with the aims and objectives and agrees to act as adviser to the association. The farmers, were vociferous in their complaints that no cutlasses and other agricultural instruments were available to them, and that there was a shortage of fungicides and pesticides, and that the Government had abandoned them for asphalt farmers such as those who operated on Nyerere Farms.

1988:Portland Janine Miller of is the winner of the first National Reading Competition coordinated by the National Library Service. Janine emerges winner over 12 other contestants representing the 14 parishes during the finals at the JBC. She receives a prize trip and a cash award of $500 from The Gleaner Company and a trophy donated by Sangster’s Bookstore.

1990:launched A programme is

to increase the amount of sports equipment in schools through exchanging the covers of ‘Blue Band’ margarine for gear used in cricket, football, netball and volleyball. The programme is launched by Minister of State in the Ministry of Labour, Welfare and Sports Donald Buchanan, at a press breakfast at The Pegasus hotel.