The body of the former Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Edward Seaga, is scheduled to arrive on Sunday, June 2. Mr. Seaga’s remains, draped in the national flag, will arrive on a Caribbean Airlines flight at the Norman Manley International Airport, escorted by members of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF). Family members, including widow Mrs. Carla Seaga and daughter Gabrielle,...

Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, Hon. Michael Henry, has hailed former Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Edward Seaga, as a nation builder and cultural icon who was instrumental in advancing Jamaica’s creative industries. “I was his junior Minister in the Ministry of Culture, and [worked with] him as Minister of State for Information when the...

Members of the Senate, today (May 31), observed a minute of silence for the former Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Edward Seaga. Mr. Seaga, who was Jamaica’s fifth Prime Minister, died in a hospital in the United States on May 28, where he had been receiving treatment.  He was 89 years old. Senate President, Thomas Tavares-Finson, informed that a joint...

Fourteen persons from the County of Cornwall were awarded the 2019 Governor-General’s Achievement Awards (GGAA) at the Grand Palladium Jamaica Resort and Spa in Lucea, Hanover, on Thursday (May 30). The recipients were recognised for their academic achievements and humanitarian efforts in aid of their wider communities and country. The parishes of Trelawny, Westmoreland, St. Elizabeth and Hanover produced three...

The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus mourns the passing of one of our Distinguished Fellows, Former Prime Minister, the Most Honourable Edward Phillip George Seaga. The Mona community extends its condolences to his widow Carla, also a member of the university community, his children and the rest of his family; we also express condolences to his colleagues, constituency...

On behalf of the people of the United States, I offer my heartfelt condolences to the people of Jamaica on the passing of the fifth Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Most Honorable Edward Phillip George Seaga, revered as one of the country’s strong pro-democracy, independence-era leaders and as a bulwark for free market economic reforms. Born in Massachusetts, Prime Minister...

Jamaica has lost one of its most accomplished sons in the passing of the Most. Hon. Phillip Edward George Seaga. Few of our leaders have had his breadth of vision or have exceeded his foresight in creating and championing critical and transformative institutions that served - and continue to serve - our country well. From the HEART Trust/NTA, the Urban...