Achievers & Trailblazers

Located at Carr Gate in the plains and  once owned white plantocracy of New Savannah, New Market that surrounded by Dixon Hill to the North, the mountainous terrain of Kepp , the  once slave owned estate to the South, the hilly terrain Brunte and New Works to the West, is Sherel’s Bar And Grill Centre...

Entrepreneur Sherel “Tiny” Hanson, (center in photo) Owner of Sherel’s Bar And Grill Centre at Carr Gate,  New Savannah, New Market, St. Elizabeth, Vincent Samuels, Community Activist and customer at Sherel’s Bar and Grill.

Little did Kenrick Morgan know that when he decided to reinvent Carr Gate, New Savannah, New Market, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica West Indies by relocating his Old Hits Party – a vintage affair – from South Coast Rest Stop And Cafe, Old New Market Square to this Cultural Historical site, that Sherel “Tiny” Hanson, 49 year old self-made business woman had also caught the vision to reinvent Carr Gate.  Sherel “Tiny” is the daughter of Dorothy Bennett-Hanson of Jack’s Gate and Reuben Hanson of Glenbournie.  She attended New Roads All Age School.

In the pursuance of be...

In explaining to Councillors of the Saint Elizabeth Parish Council, Technocrats from the Ministry of Local Government and National Security and representatives from Community Based Organizations (CBO’s) and other Stakeholders and Public Interest Groups the purpose of Saint Elizabeth Parish Safety and Security Committee, His Worship the Mayor of Black River and Chairman Saint Elizabeth Parish Council Councillor Everton Fisher said in his welcome and opening remarks that the committee was established with the vision of improving the safety and security of the citizenry in Saint Elizabeth.

Continuing to explain the purpose of the committee, Mayor Fisher said that the vision of the committee also aligns with the national vision which it has adopted and reads: Saint Elizabeth is the place to ...

As BOSA Newsletter, Volume 11 October 2012 reported Nik Wallenda saying after he successfully walked across Niagara Falls on a tightrope and made it into the Guinness Book of World Records, his next stunt would be to walk on a tightrope across the Grand Canyon.

On Sunday, June 23, 2013 at 8:00 PM in the presence of 600 persons, 34 year old Nik Wallenda clutching a 43 lbs balancing pole in his hands, completed his tightrope walk that took him a quarter mile distance over the Little Colorado River George in North Eastern Arizona, USA. The event was broadcast live on Discovery Channel.
Nik Wallenda successfully performed the stunt walking on a 2 inch thick steel cable, 1,500 feet above Little Colorado River on the Navajo Nation near the Grand Canyon...

An Honour Roll on which is recorded the names of students who have excelled in Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) and other exams and have graduated from Beersheba Primary School (Government Leased), New Market, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica, West Indies, is mounted on a wall in front of the School’s Library adjacent to the office of the Principal of the School.

A conspicuous entry in 2009 GSAT Honour Roll is the  sole name of Joel Wilson whom Mrs. Tatlin E. Smith-Williams, Principal, Beersheba Primary School (Government Leased) introduced along with Shanisa Jones to Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) in 2009 as the two best academic performing students in GSAT Exam.

What is the reason that the name of Shanisa Jones who has maintained a consistent academic average of 83...

As mentioned in the previous article regarding Business Owner Kenrick Morgan Beersheba Alumnus Getting To Know You Informal Function that was held at South Coast Rest Stop and Cafe, Old New Market Square, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica on Thursday, April 25, 2013, here is an update as to the wonderful time that was had by all who came.

Facilitator of the Getting Together, Getting to know you informal function, that Dark nimbus clouds that blanketed the sky from the hilly terrain of Fraser/Donegal to Kilmarnock/Brunte, silhouetted South Coast Rest Stop and Cafe, Old New Market Square, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica, West Indies, her face is ice as she frowned at intermittent raindrops that threatened to dampen her festivities.
Trees dressed in green bonnets clapped their hands, weather battered flags h...

Gloria Smith-Meredith, JP, BSC, native of Flint Valley, New Market, Saint Elizabeth, Beersheba Primary School (Government Leased) Alumna, Founder and Executive Director of Children of Faith – a nonprofit organization established in Montego Bay, saint James, Jamaica, West Indies to meet the needs of children who lost their parents to HIV/AIDS and are not attending school – received the Sam Sharpe Award for Community Development and Services from His Worship the Mayor of Montego Bay and Chairman Saint James parish Council Councillor Glendon Harris on National Heroes day, October 15, 2012.

Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) concur that Gloria’s involvement with Children of Faith which currently has an operating budget of JMD 15 million, is tangible manifestation that “a heart that...

BOSA Website Designer

Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) is pleased to recognize, BIG UP, and present to all Beersheba Primary School (Government Leased) Alumni, Honorary BOSA Members, Friends and Well-wishers, and visitors to its website in Jamaica and the Diaspora, Garfield Winston Hamilton, Beersheba Primary School (Government Leased) Alumnus, Electrical Engineer, Computer Scientist, Website Builder – who built and launched BOSA website at no cost to the Association – and Philanthropist.

Garfield is an erudite and a humble man whose Christian Faith makes him shun the spotlight. Nevertheless, BOSA wishes to express its sincere gratitude to his mother Sheila, Beersheba Primary School (Government Leased) Alumna and Webmaster for BOSA website, who was able to convince Garfield t...

Selvin “Sadam” Coote  Self Made Business Man Entrepreneur

Selvin “Sadam” Coote, 60 year old native of Cheviott Hills District, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica West Indies was approached by media houses in Jamaica urging him to appear on television so as to enable them to make a financial appeal on behalf of his 3 year old daughter Niyousha who is in need of immediate specialized neurological surgery in a hospital in the USA to correct a fast growing tumor in her brain.

Mr. Coote’s indomitable spirit and self-reliance propelled him to inform the media houses that he has never begged anyone in his life and he does not intend to do so in dealing with his daughter’s health crisis.

MR. COOTE’S BELIEF IN HIMSELF AND NEGOTIATING SKILL IN THE USA

Notwithstanding the amount of USD 150,000...

Kenrick Morgan, 56 year old Beersheba Primary School Alumus, a native of Carr District, New Market, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica West Indies, is of the view that notwithstanding the destruction that the Mother Of All Floods in 1979 did to Old New Market Square that resulted in Urban Development

Corporation (UDC) and other Jamaica Government Ministries and Agencies relocating the Business community to Lewisville, like her sister Joan Morgan who owns and operates a Hardware and Farm supply store in the old Business Community, contend that “dem nable string plant inna Old New Market Square” and their love, altruism, and patriotism for the old Business Community will not allow them to vacate and walk away from the area that is subliminally entrenched in their consciousness.

Instead of walking ...