Senator the Honourable Arnold J. Nicholson, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, delivered Jamaica’s address to the 69th Session of the UN General Debate at the United Nations in New York on Saturday, 27th September 2014.   The following are some of the key messages contained in the Minister’s statement.   Geo-Political Context We live in a time of...

Let me begin by thanking the team at the Women’s Leadership Initiative for inviting me to be part of today’s activity.  The WLI and I share a common goal: we want to see the end of child abuse.  Therefore, I am very pleased to work with the WLI and all other groups to ensure that we achieve our goal of...

Introduction   Mr. Speaker, I rise in this Honourable House today to speak to a very important matter related to public health. We are faced with an increase in the spread of the chikungunya virus. Mr. Speaker, I am grateful for the robust discussion that we have been having across the island because it tells me that Jamaicans are at...

Speaking Notes for Hon. Phillip Paulwell, Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Official Signing of Power Purchase Agreement (PPA’s) & Licence Presentation Ceremony Between JPS and BMR Jamaica Wind Ltd., Wigton Wind Farm III, WRB Enterprises Thursday, September 18, 2014 Mona Visitors’ Lodge and Conference Centre, UWI Mona Salutations etc… 1)      The official signing of these power purchase agreements...

The Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) was held in Apia, Samoa, from 1st to 4th September 2014. I had the honour to lead Jamaica’s delegation to this high level UN Conference and was accompanied by Honourable Robert Pickersgill, Minister of Water, Land, Environment and Climate Change, and officials from the Foreign Ministry and MWLECC. The Conference...

Senator the Honourable Arnold J. Nicholson QC, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, addressed the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing a States (SIDS) during the plenary session held on 2nd September 2014. Minister Nicholson is leading Jamaica's delegation to the Conference being held in Apia, Samoa from 2nd to 4th September 2014. Some 3000 delegates from over...

JOINT MINISTERIAL STATEMENT ISSUED BY HON. ROBERT PICKERSGILL M.P. MINISTER OF WATER, LAND, ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE EFFECTS OF THE DROUGHT ON SCHOOLS AND IN THE AGRICULTURE SECTOR On the instruction of the Most Hon. Prime Minister, I convened a meeting on Tuesday, August, 26, with Ministers and senior officials from the Ministries of Education, Health, Local Government...

We continue to observe August 23 as an important date not only for Jamaicans but for all humanity.  On this date in 1791 an uprising on what we now know as Haiti started the process which led to the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. We mark this date, on one hand, not as a celebration of slavery but as...