Monthly Archives August 2013

Most entities in Jamaica that believe in and practice the Principles of Organization and Methods, Management Information System (MIS), and Management By Objectives (MBO), are fully aware of  the importance of internal controls and internal audit that are intended to ensure that effectiveness and efficiency is maintained at all levels of operations in these entities.

The massive fraud – currently approximately JMD 52 million – that has been uncovered at Jamaica teachers Association (JTA), undoubtedly points to weaknesses in internal control and internal audit in the organization.

Irrespective of the many definitions that are given in textbooks for Management, a simple definition that anyone can easily understand, is that  a Manager is someone who gets work done through other people...

The Honourable Phillip Paulwell, Jamaica Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Minister

Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) lauds the announcement that was aired in the 7:00 PM newscasts on TVJ and CVM on Saturday, August 24, 2013 by Hon. Phillip Paulwell, Minister of Energy and Technology, that commencing 2014, text books for schools will be on Tablet Computers that will contain tracking devices against theft.

The announcement made by the Honourable Minister is consistent with the view and concern of the Ministry of Education and Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA), that each child can learn and that no child should be left behind.

With the high level of interest that male students have in Information Technology (IT), Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) is respectful...

When BOSA website was conceptualized, its purpose which has not changed, is intended to be a vehicle that Beersheba Primary School (Government Leased) Alumni in Jamaica and the Diaspora could use to establish and maintain links with their classmates, to provide information in news articles, and to enable readers/viewers and visitors to the website to comment thereon.

So far, no positive response has been received with respect to an earlier appeal that has been made for writers to submit news articles and on various topical interests to the Editor/Producer of BOSA Newsletter who would vet and proofread these articles so as to determine their worthiness for publication in BOSA Newsletter on BOSA website.

Writing and promulgation of news articles is not a one man thing...

Jamaica Track & Field Athletics Champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce

Visitors and readers of news articles that have been posted on BOSA website will recall a news article that was written about Tim Tebow, 24 year old Football Quarter Back USA, who has never been ashamed to openly profess his faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the source of his joy and strength.

In this news article, I would like to introduce you all to Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, “Pocket Rocket”, 26 year old Jamaican track and Field Athletics Champion who is God’s woman in Track and Field in the World Championship Athletics Games that are currently being held in Moscow, Russia.

As she did when in her blaze of glory when she won the gold medal in the women’s 100 meters on August 16, 2013, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce a world renow...

Students seated in photograph from left to right – Antonette Salmon, Shanisa Jones, Tanhoi Guthrie, Shanisa Hutchinson, Mircado McLean, Damanike Smith, Nickayla Stephens, and Sanya Boyd (GSAT 2013)

Seated in the ambience of Georgian architecture, a masterpiece and work of art, one of three buildings built by the Wealthy Leyden Brothers from England in the 1700’s, Waterloo Guest House and Restaurant was transformed into a gorgeous mosaic by past students of Beersheba Primary School (Government Leased) – now students attending Saint Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) and Hampton School – adorned  in multi-coloured pastel dresses, whom Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) feted at the Annual BOSA Back To School Dinner on Sunday, August 11, 2013.

BOSA members seated from l...

In photograph from left to right:  Shanice Hutchinson, Shanisa Jones, Tanhoi Guthrie, Nickayla Stephens, Vincent Samuels, BOSA Secretary/Treasurer,  Carmen Jones, BOSA Member, Victor Smith, Vice President BOSA, and Hyme Harvey BOSA Member.

Against the backdrop of the old wooden platform that six Form 3 male students – including the writer of this news article – transported on our shoulders from the old rickety dilapidated wooden building that housed Beersheba Elementary Moravian Church School  James “Dick” Richards (1872-1965) alma mater, a platform on which Harry B. Crawford (deceased), Clifford I. Chang (deceased), former Principals, and Louise E...

Patrons Celebrating “Black River Day” August 2, 2013 High Street Black River, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica West Indies.

Amidst the sounds of Genesis Steel Band playing under a white roof gazebo tent on North Street, a float parade led by a marching band on High Street, and Fyffes Pen John Cunno Band playing in the mini park in front of a sea of multi-coloured Gazebo Tents under which Vendors peddled jerk chicken, jerk perk, indigenous Jamaican cuisine, and showcased merchandize from their businesses, The Town of Black River that was officially twinned with The City of Hamilton, Bermuda on June 12, 2013, was transformed into a gorgeous mosaic with people of all nationality adorned in apparels made from the national colours of black, green, and gold.

With the historic Saint John’s Parish Church...

BOSA Secretary/Treasurer Vincent Samuels.

Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) has by Jamaica Post Office Registration No. 5203 Certificate of Posting of a Registered Article dated July 29, 2013 served a seven day ultimatum on the Chairman of the School Board at Beersheba Primary School (Government Leased), New Market, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica West Indies to reimburse the Association and Vincent Samuels all outstanding amounts incurred between August 17, 2009 – March 22, 2013 to defray the cost of auxiliary school fees and other inescapable miscellaneous expenses for Shanisa Jones, Grade 10 student at Saint Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) and a qualified beneficiary of James Richards Educational Trust Fund.

The unconscionable School Board has defied and scoffed at the direct...

Trailblazer – Shanisa Jones, Grade 10 Student at Saint Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS), #1 in her class of 36 students.

Me wise ole grannie Rosa weh raise me always tell me say “bwoy, wha a fe you cant be unfe you.” Weh me wise ole grannie Rosa tell me, has again been manifested in the life of Shanisa Jones, grade 10 student at Saint Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS), a native from the impoverished, poverty stricken, peasant farming district of Flint Valley, New Market, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica West Indies.

Notwithstanding the subtle victimization that Shanisa Jones has continued to receive from the unconscionable School Board at Beersheba Primary School (Government Leased) that has defied and scoffed at the directive from the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education...

Nickayla Stephens, Grade 8 Student at Saint Elizabeth Technical High School – A Trailblazer from Flint Valley!

In Volume 8 January 2012, pages 4 of 17 – 5  of BOSA Newsletter under the headline: Old Time Something Come Back Again,  Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) brought to the attention of Beersheba Primary School (Government Leased) Alumni, Honorary BOSA Members, Friends, Well-wishers, and other readers of its Newsletter in Jamaica and the Diaspora, the plight of 12 year old Nickayla Stephens of Flint Valley, New Market, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica West Indies.
You will all vividly recall, that on two rainy days, October 13 and 14, 2011, Nickayla’s bleak and dismal world changed from studying her lessons by the light of the dimly lit “Kitchen Bitch” tin kerosene oil lamp and...