Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, today (November 1), handed over keys to residents of 194 Bay Farm Road in St. Andrew who were dislocated after a fire destroyed their home earlier this year. A one-year-old boy died in the fire. The five-bedroom structure was reconstructed under the housing component of Housing, Opportunity, Production and Employment (HOPE) Programme. In his address,...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness departed the island this afternoon (Friday, November 1) for an eight day, official working visit to the People's Republic  of China. Prime Minister Holness will have a packed agenda, which will take him to four key cities in China including Shanghai, Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Beijing. The official working visit is highlighted by bilateral discussions with President of China,...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says the National Security Council has looked at two critical pieces of legislation that are at various stages of development. The first, he said, is the National Security Council Act, which will “situate the Council in law and give it some kind of permanence and structure, which would be [a] forum through which...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, is attributing the fall in youth unemployment to critical empowerment programmes, which have been implemented by the Government for young people. “It is gratifying when you see the various statistics and metrics go in the right direction. One such metric would be the unemployment rate, and without question, we have increased employment in...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, opened the debate on amendments to the Human Employment and Resource Training Act (2019) in the House of Representatives on Tuesday (October 29). The legislation makes the necessary legal provision for the merger of the functions of the HEART Trust/NTA with the National Youth Service (NYS), the Apprenticeship Board and the Jamaican Foundation...

Less than 24 hours after the untimely death of seven-year-old Clan Carthy Primary School student, Benjamin Bair, Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, visited the institution on Deanery Road in Kingston on Tuesday (October 29) to console Principal, Sheldon Richards, and the teachers and students, who have been badly shaken up by the mishap. Tragedy struck on Monday (October...

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says Jamaica’s human development ranking will be further improved in the coming years through construction of the 220-bed Western Children and Adolescents Hospital. He noted that while the country has a reasonably high ranking on the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI), at 97 out of 189 countries, there is still room for...