Ja: Austrian help for Maroons

Interesting story.

Visiting Austrian federal minister for education, science and arts, Helen Gehrer, has donated a brand new big-screen TV/VCR set, valued at over $100,000, to the Accompong Maroon Council in St Elizabeth. The equipment was handed over late last week.

Minister Gehrer said the gift was a direct result of the ties that had been established between Accompong and other visiting Austrian nationals.

"Our noted world-acclaimed anthropologist, Professor Zipps, who lived here and who wrote a book on Nanny and Cudjoe, insisted that I come to Accompong and bring greetings, as well as this gift," she said.