Madame Speaker, We are now in the second week of the Easter term for the 2020-2021 school year and I take this opportunity to provide an update on the status of the face-to-face resumption of teaching in schools and plans for this term, the Own Your Own device and the One Laptop or Tablet Per Child Initiatives. At the beginning...

Re: Update on COVID-19 and the move towards Vaccine Deployment Madam Speaker, since March of 2020, Jamaica has been on a long sojourn through many aspects of the COVID-19 Pandemic. We started with our first case, our walk through the tumultuous period of the spike in August and our ultimate declaration of community transmission in September. We have had to...

My Fellow Jamaicans at home and in the Diaspora:  A New Year is upon us, and we are all breathing a collective sigh of relief that 2020, the year that re-shaped our lives in so many ways, is behind us. As 2021 dawns, we are stepping into the unknown with some trepidation, with as the COVID-19 pandemic continuing unabated. Having...

We welcome 2021 with hope and optimism, giving thanks to God for sparing our lives to see this day. I am privileged and grateful to lead this great nation, small in size but large in stature, with endless potential. As difficult and challenging as it was, 2020 demonstrated that our greatest problems can only be solved when we cooperate and...

New Year’s Greeting Happy New Year! As we close out 2020 and embark on 2021, the New Year brings with it a renewed sense of possibility and a time for reflection. The past year has been a particularly challenging one for Jamaica and the whole World, as we have lived through the crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic and have endured...

My Fellow Jamaicans at home and in the Diaspora. Thank you for allowing us into your homes to greet you again this Christmas. We have come through a turbulent year that started with great hope and promises.  We anticipated that 2020 would be a Year of Transformation in our homes, personal lives, communities, and our nation. Unfortunately, that was not...

As a child, I so look forward to Christmas and I am certain that many Jamaican children are looking forward to Christmas, to grand market, to the toys, and the gifts that they will get. To see their relatives, their grandparents, to the family gatherings, but this Christmas season we will not be able to celebrate as we usually do...