Speeches by the Prime Minister

Main Address The Most Honourable Andrew Holness, ON, MP Prime Minister of Jamaica at the Ceremony of Appointment for Chief of Defence Staff   Thursday, December 1, 2016 3 p.m. King’s House       SALUTATIONS:   Today is a significant day for the JDF and Jamaica, as the baton of Chief of Defence Staff […]

  JAMAICA’S NATIONAL STATEMENT TO THE HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT OF THE TWENTY SECOND SESSION OF THE MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES TO THE UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE 15TH NOVEMBER 2016   Salutations Mr. President, Please accept Jamaica’s heartiest congratulations and best wishes on your chairmanship of this Conference. I also express […]

Address by The Most Honourable Andrew Holness Prime Minister Joint GOJ/IMF Press Conference October 13, 2016                    OPM Lobby ______________________________________________________________________________ Thank you very much Ambassador Clarke. I want to associate myself with the salutations you gave earlier and get straight down to business. I’m very pleased to announce that we have reached a staff level agreement […]

Address by The Most Honourable Andrew Holness, ON, MP Prime Minister of Jamaica at the Opening ceremony of 14th annual OOCUR @ 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, October 26, 2016 Secrets Hotel and Spa Montego Bay “Regulation: Creating a Spectrum of Opportunities for the Caribbean” Salutations   The Most Reverend Kenneth D.O Richards – Roman Catholic […]

Address by The Most Honourable Andrew Holness 5th Annual Anti-Money Laundering/ Counter-Financing of Terrorism Conference October 10, 2016              Jamaica Pegasus Hotel We’re very grateful that we’ve been spared the hurricane. I had conversations with the President of Haiti and the devastation there is just simply phenomenal; it’s really sad that they have been hit twice […]

STATEMENT BY THE MOST HONOURABLE ANDREW HOLNESS, PRIME MINISTER OF JAMAICA DELIVERED AT THE 71st SESSION OF THE (UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY) 23RD SEPTEMBER 2016   Introduction & Context   Mr. President, I am honoured to join fellow leaders at this 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly, which affords us an opportunity to undertake […]

      Speaking Notes by The Most Honourable Andrew Holness, Prime Minister of Jamaica at the International Conference on Sustainable Development,   Conference Theme: Moving Forward: The SDGs in Practice   Columbia University USA   21st September 2016     Salutations   Dr. Jeffrey Sachs,   Excellencies,   Ladies and gentlemen     In […]

Mr. Speaker, on rising I must give thanks to God for sparing us, individually, as a Parliament and as a Nation, that we can all gather here once again to deliberate on the people’s business and recommit ourselves as instruments of His will. Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the people of Jamaica who exercised […]

STATEMENT BY PRIME MINISTER ANDREW HOLNESS  ON THE ASSOCIATION OF CARIBBEAN STATES SUMMIT, 4 JUNE 2016   1.0 Purpose Parliament is being asked to note the following statement consequent upon the Prime Minister’s participation in the 7th Summit of the Association of Caribbean States, held in Havana, Cuba, on the 4th June, 2016. 2.0 Background […]

Address by Prime Minister Andrew Holness Official Opening of ‘Empowerment Park’ Established by Juici Patties at Clarendon Park in celebration of the Company’s 35th anniversary July 10, 2016 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ When the representative from the National Council on Drug Abuse came up and he was diverting into discussing marijuana, I was thinking is he going to […]