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My Fellow Jamaicans, once again we celebrate our national heritage as a people. Our journey has been characterized by a history of freedom-fighting.  As we consider the efforts and sacrifices made by our heroes and heroines over time, the songs on my heart, in my spirit and on my lips, are the songs of freedom.  These refrains of redemption kept...

Leader of the Opposition, Portia Simpson-Miller and Member of Parliament, Maxine Henry Wilson paid tribute to the mother of Prime Minister Bruce Golding, Enid Golding during the recent sitting of Parliament. Mrs Enid Golding who was in her 91st year died on September 14 at the St Joseph’s Hospital in Kingston. She will be buried next Wednesday, September 28. Mrs. Simpson-Miller...

Leader of the Opposition the Most Honourable Portia Simpson Miller expresses her condolences to Prime Minister Bruce Golding and the Golding family on the passing of the Prime Minister's mother, Mrs. Enid Golding. The Opposition Leader who has already spoken directly to the Prime Minister also wishes that God grants them the strength they will need during this time of...

My fellow Jamaicans, at home and in the Diaspora, today marks the 49th Anniversary of our Nation’s Independence.  For us, this is a significant milestone for many reasons.  Since our Independence, we have had the privilege, the honour and the responsibility of charting our own path to development in this dynamic global community. Some of us will remember the pride...

MESSAGE FROM LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION The Most  Honourable Portia Simpson Miller  EMANCIPATION DAY 2011 My fellow Jamaicans, today we mark, another Anniversary of the achievement of our Emancipation. This is due to the struggles of our ancestors who endured slavery and other forms of exploitation at the hands of the slave masters.  They eventually, used all means necessary to...

The Senate is to appoint a joint select committee, to facilitate consultations between Government and Opposition members on engaging the Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) in discussions on its monopoly, as well as the pursuit of newer energy sources.  This follows an amendment to a Private Member’s Motion brought by Government Senator, Dennis Meadow, which had originally suggested that the...

KINGSTON — Opposition Senator, Norman Grant, has tabled a motion in the Senate, seeking to have the use of communications technology by members permitted in Gordon House, seat of Jamaica’s Parliament. Senator Grant’s motion challenges one of the “hallowed” traditions of the Parliament, which insists that members of both the upper and lower Houses should make oral presentations; a rule...

KINGSTON — Opposition Senator A.J. Nicholson has recommended that the Government reform the method of appointment of Commissioners, under the Commission of Enquiries Act. He made this recommendation in a Private Members Motion, tabled in the Senate Friday June 17, 2011. Senator Nicholson also recommended that the Government should conduct a review of the Commission of Enquiries Act to reform...

KINGSTON — Opposition spokesperson on Finance, Dr. Omar Davies, has suggested that the National Housing Trust (NHT) be used as a proactive instrument islandwide, in creating employment and stimulating economic activity. He added that there is no other sector of the economy which is able to impact on economic activity more than the construction industry. “For one, it employs a...

Opposition Spokesman on Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Anthony Hylton, has recommended that the Government use the planned review of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas as an opportunity to establish a regional energy policy. He argued that the policy would unequivocally put an end to the discriminatory pricing of energy products by Trinidad and Tobago, which currently provides unfair competition...

Leader of the Opposition, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, has noted that Jamaicans need to work together to find new approaches to fight the social issue of crime that is affecting the country. Mrs. Simpson Miller, who was speaking in the 2010/11 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives Thursday (April 15), assured the Government of the Opposition's cooperation...

Opposition Spokesman on Finance, Dr. Omar Davies, has commended the Government's decision to table a copy of the Public Sector Consolidated Estimates of Expenditure, for the first time. "This being the first time the total treatment of the State financial activities is being attempted, we were in a sense 'feeling our way' in dealing with the matter at Standing Finance...