My Fellow Jamaicans at home and in the Diaspora: Today, we join the rest of the world in looking forward to the promises of a bright New Year. New beginnings generally elicit excitement and energy! While we unconsciously acknowledge that we are turning over a new leaf, we are also conscious to set goals to make the New Year better...

Greetings my fellow Jamaicans at home and in the Diaspora: The Christmas Season is usually celebrated with the expectation that each one of us has an obligation to be actively engaged in promoting peace and goodwill in our speech and conduct. We are therefore expected to let both the beauty and duties of our life be seen in who we...

“Rekindling Hope” Fellow Jamaicans, at home and abroad, I greet you warmly and wish for you a bright, prosperous and Happy New Year! It does not seem like a year since we were ushering in 2018, but we cannot hold back the hands of time. Last year had its fair spread of high points and low moments. In reference to...

Fellow Jamaicans and our friends at home and abroad, I greet you warmly as we mark the celebration of our fifty-sixth year as an independent nation. Our journey since Independence has been eventful, challenging at times, exhilarating at other times, but always enriched by the proud achievements of the past and the promise of a brighter future. We were spared...

Lady Allen and I join with Jamaicans and friends across the world in expressing our shock and sadness at the passing of a national icon, Ian Boyne. There was a strong bonds of friendship between us at both a professional and a personal level. We will always be grateful for the sincerity of his friendship and the support and encouragement...

My fellow Jamaicans: Happy New Year! 2017 is the year when our country celebrates 55 years of nationhood. We stand today at a place, when the challenges and sacrifices of the recent years, have given us the confidence to achieve the goals of our national development plan. Believing We ‘Can’ Achieve We have every reason to believe, that the promise...

Today  we meet  at  a juncture of  new beginnings: a new Parliamentary year, a new Administration with a newly elected Prime Minister. Jamaicans also have a new hope for prosperity. It is this new hope that forms the foundation for building a partnership for prosperity. We have demonstrated yet again, in our recent elections, that we can transfer power seamlessly....

REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL THE MOST HON. SIR PATRICK ALLEN ON, GCMG, CD, KSt.J AT CABINET MINISTERS’ SWEARING-IN CEREMONY KING’S HOUSE   MONDAY MARCH 7, 2016   Introduction Lady Allen joins me in welcoming each of you to King’s House for this very important ceremony to swear in new Ministers of Government.  I extend a special welcome to...