Mr. Speaker, I use this opportunity to inform this Honourable House of the Government’s plan for another round of the Disaster Mitigation Works. The works have been programmed into the government’s overall mitigation plans, which we have rolled out in three tranches. We have completed two phases of mitigation and three phases of patching so […]
Continue ReadingThe Most Honourable Andrew Holness, ON, MP Prime Minister of Jamaica Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Conference of Executive Management and Heads of Mission Tuesday, October 9, 2018 Jamaica Pegasus Hotel Salutations: Senator the Honourable Kamina Johnson Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Senator the Honourable Pearnel Charles, Jnr, […]
Continue ReadingThe Most Honourable Andrew Holness ON, MP Prime Minister at the Caribbean Water & Waste Water Association Conference On October 8, 2018 Thank you very much madam master of ceremonies Marline Stephenson Let me apologize for my voice, I got wet. Yes, we’re at a water conference so you understand. Mr Alphonsus Daniel, President […]
Continue ReadingPresentation 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 ReadingThere has been much debate in the public domain about CARICOM. Some of the information and the debate in the public domain has not always benefited from a studied view of the issues that surround Jamaica’s participation in CARICOM and speaking Mr Speaker, as the Prime Minister of the country but also as leader of a […]
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