German Gothic Style Cathedral-like Chapel built on a hill in Carmel, Westmoreland, like most Moravian Churches that were built in Jamaica. Beersheba Elementary School which was built and operated by the Moravian Church in Jamaica, was operated under the auspices of Carmel Moravian Church so as to provide primary education to the children of freed slave ancestors who fled and resided in the hilly terrain around the school after their emancipation from slavery.
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Caswell and Maud Lodenquai Grocery and Dry Goods Store; As mentioned in his abridged portrait, BOSA Secretary/Treasure worked in this store.
What use to be New Market People’s Co-operative Bank which was established to meet the needs of peasant farmers in the community, is now National People’s Co-operative Bank Jamaica Limited.
Renovation to New Market Methodist Church on the Hill
Preparatory School: Currently operated by Mrs Martin, Retired Principal, New Roads All Age School, Westmoreland.
New Market SDA Church
Carr District: Birth place of James “Dick” Richards (1876-1965), Beersheba Primary School Alumnus, Soldier, Self-made Businessman, and Philanthropist[“Bermuda King”]
New Market Flood
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The residents of a number of communities affected by Hurricane Tomas will next week have access to some of the finest medical care and medications America has to offer. Doctors and volunteers from Dorcas Medical Missions will host a number of clinics in communities including Bexon and Fond St Jacques. The Medical Mission team will provide free visits, medications and if necessary surgery to residents. The team of volunteers is expected to be on island later this week.
BOSA hope these articles will stimulate and encourage other Beersheba Primary School Alumni to give back as part of their social responsibility to poor and needy people.
Uploaded March 15, 2011
A volunteer organization from New York is currently on the island in order to provide post Tomas assistance. Dorcas Medical Inc is on their second visit to the island- and is here with a team of volunteer surgeons, medical specialists, dentists, nurses and allied professionals.
BOSA would like to stimulate and encourage other Beersheba Primary School Alumni to give back as part of their social responsibility to the poor and needy around us. We don’t have to know the person to make a difference in their live.
Vincent Samuels, Public Relations Officer, (right) Dorcas Medical Mission, Inc in an informal rap session with Dr...
Vincent Samuels, ASC, BBA, (Marketing Management and International Business), was born in Black River Public General Hospital, Black River, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica, West Indies to Simeon and Margaret Samuels, (Uncle Sim and Miss Meg, Miss Meggie), peasant working class farmer and housewife respectively from “Mount Ease”, Flint Valley, New Market, saint Elizabeth.
EARLY CHILDHOOD AND PRIMARY EDUCATION
After receiving his early childhood from Mrs. Melita Cain, Mr. Samuels attended Beersheba Elementary School where he received his primary education under the guidance and nurturing of Mr. Clifford I. Chang and Mrs. Louise E. Meyler, now Retired Principals.
SUPERNUMERARY TEACHER AND INDENTURED SERVANT
At the end of his brilliant scholastic career at Beersheba Elementary School where he wa...
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He was known in his native Jamaica as ‘Bermuda King’ — a larger-than-life, charismatic and highly successful businessman. The late Dick Richards ran the Canadian Hotel — Bermuda’s first black-owned hotel — and became a renowned philanthropist. Now they are planning to open a museum in Jamaica in his honour. This is the story of how he made a big impact — and left a lasting legacy.
It would make for a more romantic version of events, but it’s unlikely that Jamaican-born, self-made businessman James ‘Dick’ Richards arrived in Bermuda with nothi...
LETTER OF THE DAY – REFORM BROKEN SCHOOL BOARDS
Published: Sunday | December 16, 2012
THE EDITOR, Sir:
An announcement aired by RJR FM on December 13, 2012 that a major shake-up of Jamaican school boards is coming is welcome news. This move is fully supported by Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA), a vibrant and vigilant community-based organisation (CBO) and stakeholder in Beersheba Primary School (Government Leased), Newmarket, St Elizabeth.
For far too long, the entrenched culture of silence, secrecy, pussy-footing, and non-response has become the norm on some of these school boards, because they have failed to hold principals accountable so as to ensure probity, transparency, and accountability in daily administration.
One way to ensure that there is effectiveness and efficienc...
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Educator wants data-driven analysis of performance in schools
Educator and programme manager at the Mutual Building Societies Foundation (MBSF), Dr Renée Rattray, is urging school administrators to cultivate a culture of documenting while rigorously analysing data to improve the management of the institutions.
Speaking against the background of the data-driven stance which administrators of schools under the MBSF Centres of Excellence Programme have taken, Rattray lamented that ma...
The research project, titled ‘Prisms of Possibility: A Report Card on Education in Jamaica’, and presented at the Spanish Court Hotel in New Kingston yesterday, found that to a great extent decisions including staffing are still made at the ministry level, depriving school leaders of the autonomy and authority needed to effect desired changes.
Additionally, the research determined that very few schools provide the Ministry of Education with annual audited financial statements, and performance-accountability measures for principals, teachers and staff are o...
Senior Superintendent of Police Steve McGregor, head of the Kingston Central Police Division, is warning delinquent parents that they will be arrested and locked behind bars if their children are found loitering on the streets.
McGregor told The Gleaner yesterday that there has been an increase in the number of children being found on the streets at late hours of the night.
“Can you have your nine- and 12-year-old on the streets at 10 and 11 o’clock at night and you don’t think it is your responsibility to ensure that they are with you?” asked McGregor.
“Well, we want the parents to know that we are coming for them, since they don’t care...
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