REMARKS BY SENATOR THE HONOURABLE SANDREA FALCONER MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO (INFORMATION) AT THE LAUNCH OF THE ACCESS TO INFORMATION NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL ESSAY COMPETITION 2013/2014 Tuesday, September 24, 2013, 10.00 AM OPM Press Room SALUTATION: Dr. the Honourable Carolyn Gomes, Chairperson,   Access to Information Advisory Stakeholders Committee Committee Members Participants/ Past Winners in the Access to Information High School Essay Competition Members of the...

    REMARKS BY SEN. HON. SANDREA FALCONER, MINISTER WITHOUT PORTFOLIO (INFORMATION) OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER TO THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE GOVERNMENT-NGO DIALOGUE: TOWARDS EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE ELIMINATION OF ALL FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN (CEDAW) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2013 AT 9AM KNUTSFORD COURT HOTEL, RUTHVEN ROAD, KINGSTON   SALUTATION:  Madam Chair Visiting Colleagues  I...

Mrs. Siti Oussein, Deputy Director, United Nations Population Fund Sub Regional Office Superintendent Gladys Brown, Superintendent of Police, CISOCA Detective Sergeant Kirk James Dr. Sheryl-Mae Burke, Medical Officer and Trainer of Sexual Assault Mrs. Faith Webster, Executive Director, Bureau of Women’s Affairs   Gender based violence and sexual assault of our women and girls and increasingly of our boys continue...

Parents/Guardians, Teachers, Students, Friends of Education, Jamaicans all, good evening. All of us agree that Education offers the best opportunity for a better life in Jamaica. We, as taxpayers and as family members, invest more in education than anything else. This is why during the new school year that starts tomorrow there will be additional school places provided particularly in...

Jamaica joins the rest of the world in observing Monday, August 12 as International Youth Day (IYD). The theme for IYD this year, "Youth Migration: Moving Development Forward", provides an opportunity for attention to be focused on an issue that affects, and continues to occupy the minds of a large segment of youth populations globally. Jamaica supports the objective of the...

Minister of Science and Technology of Trinidad and Tobago, representing The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Hon. Dr. Rupert Griffith Fellow Ministers with responsibility for ICT Director, Telecommunication Development Bureau of the International Telecommunication Union, Mr. Brahima Sanou Secretary General of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union, Ms. Bernadette Lewis Vice-President of INTEL, Mr. John Davies Members of the Diplomatic Corps...

My Fellow Jamaicans, at home and in the Diaspora, We bring the curtains down on our 50th Anniversary celebrations and begin our 51st year at a time when our country is beckoning to us for our re-commitment to rise and build! This is a call to all of us; none is exempt! Our National Anthem constantly inspires us to believe...

My fellow Jamaicans, I greet you warmly as we unite in celebrating that momentous first of August in 1838 when “Full Freedom” finally ended the oppressive slave regime in Jamaica and elsewhere in the British Empire. Amidst the various celebratory events, we must not forget the journey of our ancestors: the degradation, hardships and suffering they endured; the resilience they...