Presentation by the Hon. Daryl Vaz, MP on the Government’s measures to regulate specific categories of plastic packaging materials at a Press Conference, Monday, September 17, 2018 in the Banquet Hall at 9 am It is now universally accepted that Small Island Developing States (SIDS), such as Jamaica, are particularly vulnerable to global environmental […]
Continue ReadingThank you very much. It was just the other day that I did my Common Entrance. Firstly , let me congratulate you on your performance on the last sitting of GSAT and you will have the distinction to be the last generation of Jamaicans to sit that notorious examination and I’m seeing the broad smiles […]
Continue ReadingIt was very heart-warming to enter the plant this morning and see the many Jamaicans coming to work. These kinds of infrastructure projects, though they use quite a bit of foreign exchange, they generate significant employment and just interacting with the labour force on the site here, tells me that the management of the construction […]
Continue ReadingThe president of the Inter- American Development Bank Group and Therese Turner-Jones my other good friend, the General Manager for the Caribbean Country Department of the IDB Dr The Honourable Ambassador Nigel Clarke, MP, Minister of Finance and the Public Service and also my good friend My other good friend The Right Reverend Howard Gregory […]
Continue ReadingMy Jamaican family! Today our great nation celebrates 56th years of political independence. It is indeed a time to celebrate all that we have achieved with our freedom and independence: We boast a stable democracy with over 74 years of elections and undisrupted change of administrations. We rank 6th in the World for Freedom of […]
Continue ReadingMy fellow Jamaicans, Each year, the Emancipation celebrations give us an opportunity to reflect on the struggle of our ancestors for freedom, against a system that denied them their dignity and humanity, often through brutally oppressive and violent means. It must have been a euphoric day, today the first of August, 180 years ago, when […]
Continue ReadingREMARKS PREPARED FOR THE CHAIRMAN OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY, THE PRIME MINISTER OF JAMAICA, THE MOST HONOURABLE ANDREW HOLNESS, MP ON THE OCCASION OF THE SPECIAL LUNCHEON HELD IN HONOUR OF HIS EXCELLENCY MR. MIGUEL DIAZ CANEL-BERMUDEZ, PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCILS OF STATE AND MINISTERS OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA ON THE MARGINS OF THE […]
Continue ReadingREMARKS BY THE PRIME MINISTER OF JAMAICA, THE MOST HONOURABLE ANDREW HOLNESS, O.N, M.P FOR SWEARING-IN CEREMONY FOR THE INSTALLATION OF THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE ADRIAN DUDLEY SAUNDERS AS PRESIDENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COURT OF JUSTICE KINGSTON WEDNESDAY 4TH JULY 2018 Your Excellencies, the Most Honourable Sir Patrick Allen, Governor-General and the Most Honourable […]
Continue ReadingOPENING STATEMENT BY THE MOST HONOURABLE ANDREW HOLNESS ON, MP PRIME MINISTER OF JAMAICA AND CHAIRMAN OF THE CONFERENCE OF HEADS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) DELIVERED AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE THIRTY-NINTH REGULAR MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA 4TH JULY 2018 Your Excellencies the Most Honourable Sir […]
Continue ReadingI have the distinct honour of saying welcome to Jamaica for all our first-time investors and visitors. Your presence at this forum signals that we are strengthening confidence in Jamaica’s business environment. The Jamaica Investment Forum represents one of Jamaica’s key initiatives designed to secure new investors and cement the decisions of investors who have […]
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