Speeches by the Prime Minister

Speech by Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Crime and Violence at the Regional Symposium: Violence as a Public Health Issue – The Crime Challenge (Trinidad and Tobago)

Posted on April 19, 2023June 6, 2023 by OPM Communications

REMARKS BY THE MOST HON. ANDREW HOLNESS, O.N., PC., MP PRIME MINISTER OF JAMAICA “Transnational Organised Crime: Challenges with Small Arms and Light Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean” on APRIL 17, 2023 REGIONAL SYMPOSIUM TO ADDRESS CRIME & VIOLENCE AS A PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUE, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO Honourable Philip […]

Handing Over of Indigent Housing in Port Maria, St Mary on January 13, 2023

Posted on January 18, 2023 by OPM Communications

Thank you very much, master of ceremonies for your kind words of introduction. Let me acknowledge the Minister of Local Government, your minister, Desmond McKenzie, who has served you well for a very, very long time. Let me acknowledge your Member of Parliament who has also served you very well for a very, very long […]

Launch of Quantas Financial Group on January 11, 2023

Posted on January 18, 2023 by OPM Communications

Thank you very much Garth. Allow me to acknowledge our Minister of Education, Fayval Williams, and, allow me as well to express a few thoughts on the co-founders of Quantas. Now, when Adrian took the stage and he started to pace, it reminded me of a lecturer in a classroom and he delivered probably one […]

Prime Minister Holness Keynote Address at the Heal the Nation, Heal the Family On January 4, 2023

Posted on January 9, 2023January 9, 2023 by OPM Communications

It is always good to greet you, to greet the new year with optimism, with hope, with gratitude, with renewed faith. My grandmother, when I would bid her goodbye, I used to have to stay with her when my mother went to work and then when she came to pick me up, I would say […]

Prime Minister’s New Year’s Message 2023

Posted on January 1, 2023January 1, 2023 by OPM Communications

We give God thanks for sparing our lives to see 2023, and we give thanks for the lives of loved ones and other great Jamaicans who transitioned last year. We embrace the New Year with optimism and positive energy, knowing that our earnest efforts will determine the success we make of the time given to […]

Christmas Message 2022 – A Christmas of Peace

Posted on December 25, 2022 by OPM Communications

Warm Christmas greetings as we celebrate the birth of our Saviour, Jesus Christ. Our heavenly Father so loved us, that he gave his only son to manifest as a beacon amongst us to show us the way to eternal life. A precious gift of perfect life, that whoever believes and accepts Christ, our soul will […]

Press Conference On November 15, 2022

Posted on November 15, 2022November 21, 2022 by OPM Communications

Remarks By The Most Honourable Andrew Holness ON, PC, MP Prime Minister of Jamaica Major General Antony Anderson, Commissioner of Police Rear Admiral Antonette Wemyss Gorman, Chief of Defence Staff Dr Honourable Horace Chang, Minister of National Security The Honourable Robert Morgan, Minister of Information The Most Honourable Andrew Holness: Thank you, Minister Morgan. […]

NHT Board Retreat October 6 , 2022

Posted on October 6, 2022November 21, 2022 by OPM Communications

Inspect a new piece of infrastructure that we delivered along Spanish Town Road, it’s a massive water main. That water main, by the way, would have replaced water mains that were laid upwards of eight years ago. I call those kinds of investments nation-building investments and you know entire generations will benefit from that including […]

Social Partnership Agreement 2022

Posted on October 5, 2022 by OPM Communications

Social Partnership Agreement 2022 – 2026 – Partnership for Jamaica’s Strong and Sustainable Recovery

PRIME MINISTER HOLNESS AT THE GENERAL DEBATE OF THE 77TH SESSION OF THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Posted on September 21, 2022September 27, 2022 by OPM Communications

“A watershed moment: transformative solutions to interlocking challenges” Mr President, I congratulate you on your election to the leadership of this distinguished body. You can be assured of our full commitment to the successful execution of your mandate, including from our position as a Vice-President of the session. I also acknowledge your predecessor for his […]