Monthly Archives October 2014

It is with much sad regret that Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) announces the home going of Edwin “Pun” Pryce, Beersheba Primary School Alumnus, Icon, and the oldest resident in Carr District, New Market, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica West Indies.
Edwin “Pun” Pryce who was admitted as a patient in Black River Public General Hospital where his health steadily declined during the length of time he was hospitalized at the institution, passed away on October 18, 2014 at age 92 years.
As one of the primary resource whom Vincent Samuels interviewed on two occasions to get information about the life and person of James “Dick” Richards (1872-1965) whom Edwin “Pun” Pryce knew quite well. Mr...

In keeping with its desire that some form of Bill Payment/Money Remittance Service should be provided to serve the people who reside in several districts that make up the impoverished peasant farming community in New Market, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica West Indies, Beersheba Old Students Association (BOSA) is pleased to announce and make everyone in New Market Community, elsewhere in Jamaica and the Diaspora aware, that PAYMA$TER, the innovative payment service that is independently owned and operated as franchises under strict standards that are consistent with the vision on its conceptualizer, Managing Director and Founder Ms. Audrey Marks, MBA, BSc, has opened its door to the people in New Market Community.

Although PAYMA$TER Services that are currently offered at the new outlet in New Mar...

Hundreds of mourners from a wide cross section of the Jamaican Society and the Diaspora, attended Thanksgiving Service that was held at Emmaus Gospel Chapel, Balaclava, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica West Indies for the late Pastor Horace A. Thompson, JP and Educator Extraordinaire (Retired School Principal) who passed away peacefully at his home at Retirement near Maggoty, Saint Elizabeth on September 18, 2014 at the age of 85+ years after a long illness.

Pastor Horace A. Thompson, JP was remembered in glowing tributes that were showered on him at the Thanksgiving Service...