History

Photo of Carr District, birth place of James “Dick” Richards (1872 – 1965)

New Savannah which borders Carr District, is part of the vast white plantocracy and slave estate spanning from Paynes Town to Kepp. In the absence of the Bye Pass Road from the Public Works Department (PWD) now National Works Agency (NWA) main road at Paynes Town through Cottage District to the intersection of the main road at four roads – near Sefton Hamilton’s (deceased) shop that was constructed and meandered through lands owned by Ernest Wakeland, J.P...

Nestled in the lush green plains of New Savannah, New Market, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica West Indies, is Car Gate which is situated a stone throw away from South Coast Rest Stop, Old New Market Square on the main road from Montego Bay, Saint James.

Although famous landmarks such as (a) Miss Emma Coley’s house which served as buying depot for fresh cows milk which Branny Milk Truck use to collect in cylindrical aluminum milk pans and transport to Jamaica Milk Products Factory in Bog walk, Saint Catherine (b) Joe Comrie’s Village Shoemaker’s Shop (c) Mr. Artimus Aarons, “Mass Artie”, JP...

Community Activist and BOSA Secretary/Treasurer

Frequent representation by Vincent Samuels, Beersheba Primary School (Government Leased) Alumnus on behalf of residents in his native impoverished, poverty stricken, peasant farming rocky hilly terrain of Flint Valley, New Market, Saint Elizabeth, is not by any means a new phenomenon.

“Kitchen Bitch” And Home Sweet Home Kerosene Lamps The Source of Light in The Home.
In the 1960’s while residing at Flint Valley in the house that his grandmother Jane Rebertha Samuels bequeathed to him in her estate, tired of obtaining light in his dingy apartment from the old “Kitchen Bitch” and Home Sweet Home Kerosene Lamps, Vincent Samuels made the bold move – scoffed at by Politicians, reactionaries, and some of his own people – and wrote to Jamaica Pub...

It is with much sadness and regret that Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) announces the home going of the following Beersheba Primary School (Government Leased) Alumni:

Rachael Chambers, sister of Clarence Chambers former Tin Smith and Beersheba Primary Alumnus of  New Savannah, New Market, Saint Elizabeth.

James Lenford Cain “Son Son”, predeceased by his parents Charles Cain “Mass Charlie” and “Aunt Lor” of  Long Ground District, New Market, Saint Elizabeth.

The thoughts and prayers of all Beersheba Primary School Alumni in Jamaica and the Diaspora are with the family of the deceased as they mourn and try to cope with their loss.

L-R-Vincent Samuels, Secretary/Treasurer BOSA, Mrs. Tatlin E. Smith-Williams, Principal Beersheba Primary School (Government Leased) Wilford Holness, BOSA member (partially hidden, and the Rev. Phyllis Seymour, Chairman of the School Board.

Against the backdrop of hexagonal architectural partition, amidst a sea of bright eyed students, males wearing khaki shirts and pants and females wearing royal blue blouses and over the knee navy blue tunics who gathered for the morning’s assembly, Vincent Samuels, Secretary/Treasurer, Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) flanked by Vincent Brown, Vinnette Cain, Veronica Arthur-Heath, Victor Smith, Hymie Harvey, Wilford Holness – who currently resides in the UK – representatives of the Association, Councillor Cyril Martin, member Parish Council, N...

Four tall coconut trees loaded with coconuts provided the backdrop to the hilly terrain on which Carmel Moravian Church, Westmoreland, Jamaica West Indies, boasting its German Gothic Architecture and buttresses punctuated with Greco-Roman Arched Stained Glass Windows and Wooden Doors made of hardwood that is termite free and has lasted for many years, stood as mourners from far and near, began filing into the sanctuary as early as 7.45 a.m. so as to ensure that they got the best seats.

Not to be out done were vendors in the church yard and also on the  Carmel Primary School grounds who staked out the best spots to peddle their wares...

Dark nimbus clouds that descended as a veil over New Road All Age School, Westmoreland, Jamaica, West Indies, did not dampen the spirits of the ancestors including “Mass” Roland Kirlew and his wife “Miss Jimima, peasant farmer and housewife respectively from Happy Hall, New Market, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica, West Indies who sat in the audience in the main auditorium of the school on Thursday, April 25, 2013 as the hour of 2.00 p.m. drew near for the appreciation Ceremony in honour of Nora D. “Kitty” “Teacher’ Kirlew-Lawrence was about to begin.

Seated on a raised platform overlooking the audience, was several distinguished persons that included: The Very Rev. Canon The Honourable Hartley D. Perrin, Custos Rotulorum for Westmoreland, Mr. C. A...

“Ms. Lou”

Bosa Newsletter has been receiving several inquiries from Old Students of Beersheba Primary School with respect to how Mrs. Louise E. Tomlinson-Meyler “Ms. Lou”, Retired Principal of Beersheba Primary School, Icon and Legend, has been doing health-wise at 93 years old.

Bosa caught up with this most recent photograph of “Miss Lou” which tells the story like it is! Apart from memory lapses in her conversation, “Miss Lou” is not suffering from any pain or medical problem and she moves around without a cane and her appetite is excellent!!

Bosa has obtained “Miss Lou’s” permission to publish her telephone contact number 1-876-578-0491 that will enable her past students to touch base with her.

Tribute to Clifford Isaac Chang “Teacher Chang”

“Only The Best Is Good Enough”

That night in the dilapidated twin roof sand-dashed wooden building that housed Beersheba Elementary Moravian Church School when Harry B. Crawford, his wife Muriel, and their three daughters sat on the old wooden platform on which he and his predecessors taught and administered school affairs from, teary eyed school students and their parents silhouetted by the light of the old Tilley Gas Lamp in sombre mood, sang the farewell song YOU’RE GONE BUT WE SHALL MISS YOU, THERE’LL BE NO SAD FAREWELL, WE’LL ALL REMEMBER YOU WHEN WE BREATHE OUR EVENING CHOIR, that was accompanied on the twin pedalled organ by Miss Louise E Tomlinson “Miss Lou.”

With Harry B. Crawford, Principal Beersheba Elementary Moravi...

Clifford Isaac Chang deceased

Keyboards on the pipe-organ powered by bellows at Carmel Moravian Church, Westmoreland, and the old piano and twin pedal organ in the dilapidated wooden building that housed Beersheba Elementary School, New Market, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica, West Indies; owned and operated by the Moravian Church – reverberated in sweet melody at the touch of the master’s fingers – have never sounded the same since the day that Clifford Isaac Chang, visionary, model teacher, musician, icon, legend, and philanthropist played his last masterpiece and exited the stage much to the regret of church choirs and school choirs that he trained and made them render several masterpieces to the delight of many audiences throughout Jamaica, West Indies over the years.

It is with much s...