Since the launch of the first National Export Strategy in 2008, Jamaica has significantly improved the time it takes to export agricultural produce, moving from 21 days to now one week. Additionally, in 2015 Jamaica moved up 27 places, from 85 to 58, in the World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business Ranking. The country also improved its performance in the...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, has expressed gratitude to the People’s Republic of China for their kindness in handing over a Chinese garden to the Jamaican people. Formal documents were signed by the Government of Jamaica to accept the garden as a gift in February 2010. “At the ground-breaking we agreed that this garden would be a...

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller is commending Jamaica’s sportsmen and sportswomen for their dedication and outstanding representation of the nation and its people. In a statement on Wednesday (August 19), Prime Minister Simpson Miller said the country’s athletes across various sporting disciplines continue to give of their best. She said they embody the hopes and aspirations of the nation and...

Students, who will be attending high school in September, are being encouraged  by the Prime Minister, to put aside negative thoughts and actions. The Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, said that adopting a positive outlook and attitude is one of the most important keys to achieving success. “Never, ever keep the word ‘can’t’ in your thinking. It is an evil...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller has praised members of visiting humanitarian group, Joseph Assignment Global Initiative, on efforts to enhance the lives of residents in several inner city and rural communities. Joseph Assignment, which is a worldwide organisation based in the United States,  has been providing interventions in health, education, and skills training in communities in Kingston,...

My Fellow Jamaicans:   The detachment of Jamaica from the British colonial scaffold 53 years ago, and our emergence as an independent nation-state, was as seminal a moment as it was sensational.   We chose to take the reigns of our destiny firmly in our hands, and pledged to forge a just and progressive nation from the rejected colonialism.  ...

The Government is moving apace to expand the cassava industry through a number of partnerships with the private sector and the University of the West Indies, with support from the Colombian Government in the establishment of a factory. Providing details at the 63rd staging of the Denbigh Agricultural and Industrial Show, in May Pen, Clarendon, on August 2, Prime Minister,...