Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller says Government has been making a deliberate effort to increase the participation of children in policy formulation and implementation. The Prime Minister was speaking at the 10th Annual Caribbean Child Research Conference on November 6 at the Jamaica Conference.  She said that in order to achieve this "there has been the appointment of child ambassadors....

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller is on a one-day personal visit overseas. The Prime Minister departed Kingston this morning (Tuesday, November 10) to visit a family member in the United States who is ill. The Prime Minister will return to Jamaica this evening.

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has given instructions for the Minister of Health Dr. Fenton Ferguson to publish to the nation tomorrow, Friday, November 6, (earlier than originally planned) the report of an audit of the Health sector which the Minister had commissioned earlier this year. The decision was taken at a Partnership for Jamaica National Council at a meeting...

Hailing the country’s nurses as ‘God’s angels on earth’, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller expressed gratitude to them for continuing to support the ongoing Economic Reform Programme and accepting the Government’s wage offer. The Prime Minister was speaking at the Signing of the Heads of Agreement for the Contract Period 2015-2017 between the Government of Jamaica and the Nurses Association...

The dream of owning their own home is one of the most important life goals for many Jamaicans.  Helping Jamaicans realise that important home ownership dream is an important policy objective of government. The Sugar Barracks Relocation Programme is one of the ways in which the Government is doing so.  This initiative is also in alignment with the Government’s poverty...

Work on the Caymanas to Linstead leg of the North-South Highway is more than 80 per cent complete and is on track to conclude in the first quarter of 2016. Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, who toured that section of the highway yesterday (October 28), said she is pleased with the progress of the project. She commended...

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller Portia Simpson Miller says she is very pleased with the progress being made on the construction of the North-South Highway from Caymanas in St. Catherine to Mammee Bay near Ocho Rios in St. Ann. The Prime Minister was speaking with journalists during a tour of a section of the highway from Caymanas to Treadways in...