Monthly Archives April 2013

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 ...

Reflection on Beersheba Primary School Alumni, friends, and well wishers of Bosa  who have passed on since Volume 13 of the Association’s Newsletter was  published:

Kenneth Adolphy Williams, age 73 years , Beersheba Primary School Alumnus

of Carr District, New Market, Jamaica and England, passed away on February 01, 2013 leaving sister Cynda Williams, brother Vivian Williams, sons Mark Williams and Luke Williams, nephews Lenworth “Lennie” Cameron, Andrew Burke, Dean Williams, and other family members and relatives to mourn his loss.

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Lancelot Walker “Mass Lance”

Lancelot Walker “Mass Lance, age 93 years old, late blacksmith, former JLP member of Parish Council for New Market Parochial Division, and Justice of the Peace, passed away in Mandeville Public General...

“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...