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...

I am acutely aware that some of our critical institutions, more so schools, could be impacted by the ongoing dry period that the island continues to experience, especially at the opening of the new school term. Our most recent information from the Meteorological Service is that the Southern parishes of St. Elizabeth, Manchester, Clarendon, St. Catherine and Kingston and St....

My Fellow Jamaicans, If somehow we could relive that First of August, 1838  -  that dawn of “Full Freedom”, perhaps our celebration today would be of a different nature. Yes, there would still be the joy which must come with the celebration of the destruction of the shackles of slavery. There would still be the hopefulness for the better tomorrow...

I greet you, my fellow Jamaicans, on this “August Morning” – the 176th anniversary of our emancipation from enslavement. It is also the year in which we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League by our icons, Marcus Mosiah Garvey and Amy Ashwood Garvey. While we in Jamaica are celebrating...