THIS DAY IN OUR PAST
The following events took place on November 8 in the years identified:
1982: The island’s churches are being urged to dramatise their concern for the unemployed by adopting programmes aimed at providing employment for at least one person for one day of the week in each congregation. The renewed call for the Church to participate in easing the unemployment problem in Jamaica is made by C. Evans Bailey in remarks to the half yearly meeting of the Jamaica Council of Churches (JCC) of which he is president. Bailey says that the economic conditions in the country have worsened, as they have in the rest of the world since the JCC held its annual general meeting in May 1982. The suggestion that each congregation should attempt to help in solving the country’s unemployment problem was first made at the meeting in May 1982.
1990: Government forensic scientists will move into a new, comfortable, state-ofthe-art facility by the middle of 1991, Minister of National Security, K.D. Knight announces. Knight says the $6 million forensic science laboratory will replace the old building at Kingston Gardens, which has become an eyesore in the past few years. He is addressing a one-day forensic symposium held by his ministry at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel, New Kingston. He says the fully equipped laboratory will give the operational police, which has practising forensic scientists, an advantage over modern-day criminals, who have been very sophisticated in their activities. The minister suggests that members of the force should further develop themselves in the sciences, such as physics and mathematics to make them ballistic experts; and chemistry, for becoming forensic chemists.
1990: Environmentalist Homero Silva outlines his prescription for saving Kingston Harbour from pollution. His first recommendation for saving the harbour is the collection and disposal of solid waste. Silva says this can be achieved by increasing the collection service to 100 per cent by the acquisition of garbage trucks, garbage bins and other units of collection Second, Silva suggests the conversion of the Riverton City dump into an engineered landfill.