• West Indies Union dissolved; replaced by Jamaica Conference, Atlantic Caribbean Mission
(Jamaica Observer) MANDEVILLE, Manchester — The West Indies Union (WIU) Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is no more. The 104-year-old organisation headquartered here was yesterday dissolved in an official ceremony at Northern Caribbean University (NCU) in this central Jamaica town.
In its place is the Jamaica Union Conference — comprising the East, West, Central, North and North East Jamaica conferences — and the Atlantic Caribbean Union Mission (ACUM), which incorporates the Bahamas, North Bahamas, and Cayman Islands conferences, as well as and Turks and Caicos Islands Mission.
Moving the historic motion, secretary of the former union, Pastor Glen Samuels, outlined some elements of the new arrangement.
“I move that the West Indies Union be dissolved and that all its assets be transferred to the Jamaica Union. Further, that the West Indies Union gives power to the Jamaica Union to pursue and continue any transaction that had gone in the name of the West Indies Union or was voted by its executive committee.
Further, that the WIU Memorial Church be established on the campus of Northern Caribbean Univer-sity to preserve the name, heritage and history of West Indies Union,” he said.
As part of the reorganisation also, NCU and Andrews Memorial Hospital, both formerly owned and operated by the West Indies Union, will change hands.