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Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller signed a two-year cooperation agreement with the Chairman of China Communications Construction Company (CCCC), Mr. Zhou Jichang, for undertaking exploration of infrastructure development projects in Jamaica.   In her remarks at the signing at Jamaica House on Saturday (July 21), the Prime Minister said that “projects which will flow from this agreement must bring mutual economic benefit, deliver value for...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson-Miller, has lauded the National Association of Jamaican and Supportive Organisations (NAJASO), for 35 years of outstanding work in the Diaspora on behalf of Jamaica. In her message, read by Jamaica’s Consul General to New York, Herman LaMont, at NAJASO’s 35th Anniversary Award Banquet on July 14, at the Adams Mark Hotel in Buffalo,...

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has expressed admiration and pleasure at the election of South Africa's Minster of Internal Affairs, Mrs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, as the Chairman of the African Union. The Prime Minister described Mrs Dlamini-Zuma as "an advocate for the people through peace, and an inspiration to women leaders the world over. She is an inspiration to me, as she...

Prime Minister Simpson Miller said that Jamaica was more than a name and a brand, but was about people, when she called on the South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) to proceed with plans to advance services at the Spanish Town Hospital. Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Queen Sofia of Spain Women's Centre at the Spanish Town Hospital,...

As several developments continue apace in the parish of Trelawny, the redevelopment plan for the town of Falmouth is to be completed and gazetted by the end of 2012. According to Director of Surveying, Urban Development Corporation (UDC), Shardon Haye, a draft plan is in place and is being reviewed by the UDC, and that process should be finished by...

Prime Minister the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, has  outlined the benefits of CARICOM to the people of the region, as concerns mount on the need for the regional institution. She was speaking at the opening ceremony of the Thirty-third Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), on  July 4. "CARICOM," she said,...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, says  freedom of movement within CARICOM must be the foundation on which integration is built, and called for full freedom of movement in all categories by 2015. She was speaking at the opening  of the 33rd  Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), on  July...

Prime Minister the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller on Tuesday (July 3), chaired the Twenty-Third Meeting of the Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee (PMSC) on External Negotiations, at the Bay Gardens Hotel in Gros-Islet, St. Lucia. The meeting, which was open to the media up to the start of the proceedings, was convened to: assess the Canada-CARICOM negotiations for a trade and...

The sixth staging of the Public Sector Customer Service Competition will be launched Thursday July 5th by the Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism and Entertainment, Damion Crawford at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel.  Minister Crawford will deliver the keynote address on the theme ‘Service Excellence for National Development’. The biennial competition which was first held in 2001 seeks to...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, Wednesday July 4th assured Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government of Jamaica’s commitment to regional integration. She was addressing the opening ceremony of the 33rd Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government held at the Sandals Grande St. Lucian Spa and Beach Resort in Gros-Islet, St Lucia. She noted that “In...

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller departs Jamaica Tuesday July 3rd for St. Lucia where she will attend the 33rd Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, CARICOM. The meeting takes place July 4 – 6. As one of the newly elected Leaders, Mrs. Simpson Miller will address the Heads at the Opening Ceremony and...

Cabinet has set up an Inter-ministerial Committee to consider the report of the United States Department of State on trafficking in persons 2012, which downgraded Jamaica from Tier 2 to a Tier 2 watch list. Making the announcement on June 27 at the Jamaica House press briefing, held at the Office of the Prime Minister, Minister with responsibility for Information,...