Monthly Archives October 2013

Thanksgiving Service for Errol Anthony “Peachie” Piper, age 61 years of Happy Hall, New Market, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica West Indies, Beersheba Primary School Alumnus, guitarist, farmer, and mason who passed away suddenly on his farm on September 28, 2013 was held at New Market Seventh Day Adventist Church, New Market, Saint Elizabeth on Sunday, October 27, 2013.

In tributes that were given by persons from a wide cross section of the community, references were made to “Peachie” as being the caring family man who nurtured several of his nephews and nieces. Mrs. B. E. Martin, Principal New Market Preparatory School who represented New Testament Church of God at New Savannah, New market, Saint Elizabeth referred to “Peachie” as a kindhearted community man who was always willing to vo...

Left to right – Vincent Samuels,  BOSA Secretary Treasurer,  holding photograph of James “Dick”  Richards, Mrs Tatlin E. Smith-Williams, Principal Beersheba Primary School,  Wilford Holiness, BOSA member and Rev. Phyllis Seymour, Board Chairman of Beersheba Primary  School.

As a result of credible information that has come to the attention of Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) regarding the alleged employment of Nickesha Lawrence as a member of the Ancillary Staff (Canteen Cook) at Beersheba Primary School (Government Leased), in light of offices currently held by Miss Lawrence as President of the School’s PTA and Member of the School Board and the School Board representative on the Managing Committee for James Richards Educational Trust Fund, Beersheba Old Students Associ...

 Beersheba Parochial Road No. 47

Encouraged and fired up by information received on CALLING FARMERS, a 5 minutes radio programme that is heard on RJR 94.5 FM Radio weekdays at 5:15 AM regarding the invaluable contribution that Shawn Baugh, Director of Planning and Evaluation at Rural Agricultural Development Authority (RADA) has been making in improving Parochial Roads in deep rural agricultural communities throughout the island of Jamaica, Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) has written to Mr. Baugh, asking him to intervene and liaise with J. C...

Nickayla Stephens, Grade 9 Student at Saint Elizabeth Technical High School, Santa Cruz, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica.

Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) received the following two text messages at 2:50 PM and 2:52 PM on Sunday, October 13, 2013 from Nickayla Stephens from the impoverished, poverty stricken, peasant farming district of Flint Valley, New Market, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica West Indies, age 14 years, grade 9 student at Saint Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) and a qualified beneficiary of James Richards Educational Trust Fund for which Beersheba Primary School (Government Leased) is the new Trustee after the balance of JMD 6,856,029.84 remaining in the Fund was legally transferred by Bermuda Trust Company Limited by way of a Deed Of Appointment And Termination on Nov...