Speeches by the Prime Minister

STATEMENT TO PARLIAMENT By Prime Minister Andrew Holness ZONE OF SPECIAL OPERATIONS (MOUNT SALEM) Tuesday, September 12, 2017   Context Mr. Speaker, during my Budget presentation for this Fiscal Year, I informed the Parliament that the Government is developing Plan Secure Jamaica. It is a comprehensive, whole of government plan to build a national security […]

Address by the The Most Hon. Andrew Holness, ON, MP Prime Minister at  CB’s Ground-Breaking Ceremony for New Processing Plant Aug 18, 2017   Let me acknowledge my good friend and neighbor for my constituency, Monsignor Gregory Ramkissoon founder of the Mustard Seed Communities.   Let me also acknowledge the ministers of government who are […]

KEYNOTE ADDRESS By the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, ON, MP Prime Minister, Jamaica Launch of Youth Summer Programme August 10, 2017     Everybody knows that I love the song ‘My Dream’. There is nothing wrong with dreaming; people say you dream with your eyes closed but you have to move from the stage of […]

Address by The Most Honorable Andrew Holness, ON, MP Prime Minister at the Official Commissioning Ceremony Rosewell Water Supply Project August 11, 2017     Thank you very much.   We’ve been long in ceremony and so I am certain you will agree with me that it is satisfactory to say distinguished ladies and gentlemen. […]

KEYNOTE ADDRESS By the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, ON, MP Prime Minister, Jamaica Launch of the Government of Jamaica Portal – GOV.JM August 09, 2017   I am very excited about this project. It represents one of the critical elements of the transformation of the public sector. In development years Jamaica would be a country […]

KEYNOTE ADDRESS By the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, ON, MP Prime Minister, Jamaica Official Opening of Kupius Bridge in Clarendon August 3, 2017   NIU Qingbao ( Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Jamaica) you have so absorbed the culture and I was just watching the eyes and expression in the audience as they […]

Fellow Jamaicans, On the 55th anniversary of our Independence, it is fitting that we celebrate our achievements and strengths while pondering our challenges. Our independence theme this year is, “Celebrating Jamaicans at home and abroad”. And how appropriate that we should have that theme when our  athletes from home and abroad are right now holding […]

Fellow Jamaicans, As we celebrate yet another Emancipation Day, let us continue to remind ourselves of the hard-fought struggles which led us to achieve that momentous victory over oppression.   Let us never take for granted the heroic efforts waged by our forebears, particularly Sam Sharpe, to secure the foundation of freedom on which we […]

  Keynote Address by The Most Hon. Andrew Holness ON, MP, Prime MInister at the Official Opening of Jamaica 55 Diaspora Conference July 23, 2017   Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, good evening. Before I start, let me say that the first time that I addressed the diaspora conference was when I was the Minister of […]

Address by The Most Hon. Andrew Holness ON, MP Prime Minister at The Grand Opening Ceremony – Denham Town Restorative Justice Centre July 17, 2017   Thank you very much Minister Chuck. Let me acknowledge the Most Honourable Edward Phillip George Seaga, one of the framers of our constitution, a father of the nation, a […]