THIS DAY IN OUR PAST

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

1949:

The draft agreement between the Government and the Jamaica Broadcasting Company Limited, for the award of a franchise to operate a broadcasting and rediffusion service in the island, is laid on the tables of Legislative Council and the House of Representatives, as the Spring Session opens at Headquarters House.

1950:

W.M. Dickson, Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) member of the House of Representatives for West Hanover, breaks party ranks by voting with nine People’s National Party members in the House of Representatives, in support of a motion moved by J.A. McPherson, the JLP’s Member forWest StThomas for the establishment of a State Bank in Jamaica, to aid industrial and agricultural developments. The motion is carried 11-8.

1974:

A mission to recruit 200 teachers from foreign countries begins with the departure of a four-man team from Jamaica. Team members are Ross Murray, chief education officer; A. Wesley Powell, principal of Excelsior School; Fays Saunders, principal of St Andrew High School; and R.G. Chambers, Establishments officer in the Ministry of Education.

1984:

Kingston College Old Boys ( KCOB) register an upset 2-1 win over Munro Old Boys in a Jamaica Men’s Hockey Association (JMHA) Zone A encounter at Up Park Camp. It’s Munro’s first defeat of the season in six matches. Scoring for KCOB were Earl Noyan and Herman Mason, while Bobby Chin scored for Munro.

1984:

Estimates of Expenditure for a $3.8 billion budget for the financial year 1984-85 are tabled in the House of Representatives by Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Edward Seaga.