Fellow Jamaicans: As we mark Emancipation Day 2016, we reflect on the heroism, awe-inspiring courage and indomitable will of our forebears, as well as the legacy they have bequeathed to us. The daring of those who were insistent in demanding their dignity; their resoluteness in struggling against their dehumanization and their freshness of vision in imagining a new kind of...

My fellow Jamaicans, brothers and sisters: Today we celebrate another Emancipation Day, One Hundred and Seventy Eight years after that epic event, which ended the enslavement of Black people. Slavery was the most reprehensible chapter of our modern history. Emancipation provided the opportunity for a fresh start. Today we breathe the fresh air of freedom, bought with the blood, sweat,...

In May 2016, the Minister of Education, Youth and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid announced the removal of the payment of auxiliary fees to all secondary institutions. Since then, much debate has ensued about the implications of this removal.  This Government believes that education must be compulsory between the ages of your third and eighteenth birthday. Already through the...

Press Statement Issued at the Conclusion of the Official Visit of Dr. the Honourable Keith Rowley Prime Minister of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago   21st July 2016 KINGSTON, JAMAICA Over the past few days, Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley and I had many hours of engaging discussions on bilateral, regional and multilateral issues of mutual interest and concern....

STATEMENT TO PARLIAMENT BY MINISTER OF HEALTH DR. THE HON. CHRISTOPHER TUFTON TUESDAY, JULY 19, 2016 Introduction Mr. Speaker, the Ministry of Health has been continuously updating the country on our efforts to reduce the impact of the zika virus on the population, in particular pregnant women and their babies. We know that this is a new disease which cannot...

HON. AUDLEY SHAW, CD, MP MINISTER OF FINANCE AND THE PUBLIC SERVICE STATEMENT TO PARLIAMENT ON THE RECENT USA AND EUROPEAN INVESTOR ROADSHOW JULY 19, 2016 MR. SPEAKER, ON FRIDAY JULY 8 2016, I CONCLUDED THE SECOND LEG OF A USA AND EUROPEAN NON-DEAL INVESTOR ROADSHOW. TODAY I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH THE PARLIAMENT AND THE JAMAICAN PEOPLE DETAILS OF THOSE...

STATEMENT BY THE HONOURABLE MINISTER OF JUSTICE TO THE HOUSE OF THE REPRESENTATIVES - ADMINISTRATOR-GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT ANNUAL REPORT 2014/2015 It is with great pleasure that I table in this Honourable House of Representatives today the 2014/2015 annual report of the Administrator-General’s Department. Mr. Speaker, the report shows that the Agency achieved most of its targets for the period. And Mr. Speaker, this...