Monthly Archives March 2013

Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) is pleased to announce that in keeping with its Mission Statement, the Association held an impromptu meeting at Sports Day 2013 at Beersheba Primary School (Government Leased) with Councillor Cyril Martin, Member Parish Council, New Market Parochial Division with a view to come up with a tangible suggestion with respect to how numerous potholes and craters on Beersheba/Flint Valley Parochial Road from the intersection of the Bye-Pass Road to Carr District to Happy Hall (Holness Corner) could be repaired through community involvement.

Unhesitatingly, Councillor Martin accepted the suggestion that Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) made to him, that if he provided marl to fill the potholes and craters, male residents in the community would be ...

The absence of the Jamaican National Flag on the flagpole with its grey cord dangling in the crisp wind that blew over the play field at Beersheba Primary School (Government Leased) that is nestled on the savannah between the mountainous terrain of Kilmarnock, Woodlands, Flint Valley, and Glenbournie, did not dampen the spirit of patriotism and community togetherness of parents and other members of Beersheba Primary School (Government Leased) Community who turned up at the school to watch and participate in Sports Day 2013 which began at 10.00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 27, 2013.

Notwithstanding repeated pleas that the community made to the Principal of the school Mrs. Tatlin E...

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...

George E. Russell, Winston and Marilyn

Samuels named to College of Agriculture and

Life Sciences 2013 Hall of Fame

The spirits of the Samuels and Dennis Ancestors who treaded the hilly terrain of “Dry Hill”, Glenbournie, Westmoreland, one hand holding crocus bags slung over their shoulders and agricultural forks in the fingers, cutlasses (machetes) held firmly in the other hand –tools of their peasant farming livelihood – who resided on the rocky terrain of “Mount Ease”, Flint Valley and Long Ground, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica, West Indies to Cape Coast Castle, the Atlantic Slave Trade Seaport in G...

Shanisa Jones, 14 year old grade 9G student from Flint Valley, New Market, Saint Elizabeth, who attends Saint Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) and maintains 83.8 average academic performance.

Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) has been the safety net that has kept Shanisa in school. On behalf of Shanisa’s parents who reside in the peasant impoverished farming community of Flint Valley, New Market, Saint Elizabeth, the Association wishes to place on record its sincere gratitude to Sheila and Winston (Huntley) Hamilton, Nora “Kitty Teacher” Kirlew-Lawrence, Roy Holness, Kenneth Smith, Viola Cain-Hall, RN, Neville Jones, Beersheba Primary School Alumni, for their periodic generous sacrificial financial contributions that have enabled Shanisa to continue to attend and exce...

Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) is pleased to report that the meeting that was held at the Ministry of Education Head Office in Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies on March 13, 2013 was very successful. The meeting that was presided over by Mrs. Elaine Foster-Allen, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education was convened to discuss, resolve, and bring closure to vexed contentious outstanding issues involving the Administration at Beersheba Primary School (Government Leased) and Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA).

Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) wishes to place on record its admiration and gratitude for the tact, adroitness, and high level of professionalism, graciousness, and balance displayed by the Permanent Secretary as she presided over the meeting that was attend...

During the years that my grandmother Jane Rebertha Samuels, “Auntie Rosa”, “Mama Rose” – deceased at age 106 years – nurtured me in her dilapidated wooden house situated on the rocky terrain of “Mount Ease”, Flint Valley, Saint Elizabeth, among the many stories my grandmother related to me before she passed away, was that the hole from which fresh clean water was gushing was capped, and that an Engineer by the name of Mr. Alport stated publicly that there are seven (7) rivers running under Old New Market square.

Jane Rebertha Samuels, “Mama Rosa”, “Auntie Rosa”

My grandmother further related to me that when C. C. Bromfield, Syrian Businessman – deceased – was building his One Stop Shopping Department Store, Grocery, and Shell Gas Station – this building is currently owned...