Dear Editor,
The letter to the editor in the Jamaica Observer of Wednesday, January 6, 2016, headlined ‘Promise is a comfort to a fool’, states that the Bustamante Hospital for Children was built in the 1960s. This is both inaccurate and rather misleading.
So, in order to accurately preserve our history, it must be noted that the Bustamante Hospital for Children was not built in the 1960s.
I am a retired Jamaica Defence Force officer, and I was tested/examined for enlistment in the Jamaica Local Forces/Jamaica Military Band at that hospital when it was under the command and administration of the British Army in Jamaica for several years. It was known as the British Military Hospital.
When the British Army left Jamaica in the 1960s, it was transformed into a hospital for children, which was an excellent idea.
I trust this information will be useful.
Happy New Year!
Major Joe Williams (ret’d)
joewillmusic@cwjamaica.com
The letter to the editor in the Jamaica Observer of Wednesday, January 6, 2016, headlined ‘Promise is a comfort to a fool’, states that the Bustamante Hospital for Children was built in the 1960s. This is both inaccurate and rather misleading.
So, in order to accurately preserve our history, it must be noted that the Bustamante Hospital for Children was not built in the 1960s.
I am a retired Jamaica Defence Force officer, and I was tested/examined for enlistment in the Jamaica Local Forces/Jamaica Military Band at that hospital when it was under the command and administration of the British Army in Jamaica for several years. It was known as the British Military Hospital.
When the British Army left Jamaica in the 1960s, it was transformed into a hospital for children, which was an excellent idea.
I trust this information will be useful.
Happy New Year!
Major Joe Williams (ret’d)
joewillmusic@cwjamaica.com