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Prime Minister the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller.

Statement by PM Simpson Miller at the UN Security Council

Statement by the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, ON, MP, Prime Minister of Jamaica, to the Security Council Debate on the Peace and Security Challenges of Small Island Developing States 30thJuly, 2015 Mr. President Mr. Secretary-General Heads of...

Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites (centre), being escorted by students at the St. Catherine-based Cedar Grove Academy, to a stakeholders’ consultation, held at the school, on June 4. (FILE)

Statement On Guidelines For Purchase Of Textbooks

Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites (centre), is flanked by students from the St. Hugh’s High School for Girls, just before the start of the institution’s National Conference on Girls’ Education on November 20, at the Jamaica Conference Centre, downtown Kingston. (FILE)

Statement On Transfers Of Grade Six Achievement Test Awardees

Education Minister, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites (File)

Statement By The Hon. Minister Of Education On Bullying In Schools

Minister of Education, Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites. (FILE)

Statement on the Closure of Small Schools

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11 years ago CommerceParliament

Ministerial Statement 21/07 /2015 Tabling of the Special Economic Zone White Paper

Mr. Speaker, the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce is advanced in its preparation of the Special Economic Zone Policy Framework. Today, I will lay before this Honourable House the White Paper on Special Economic Zones. 1. Background The Ministry developed a policy paper on the SEZ regimewhich was approved by Cabinet on January 5, 2015. The SEZ Policy...

Minister of Education, the Hon. Rev. Ronald Thwaites.

11 years ago Education

Statement on the Safe Schools Programme

Mr. Speaker I have tabled in the House today a ministry paper that details the progress being made in the implementation of the Safe Schools Programme for the period 2012-2014. The Security and Safety Unit in the Ministry of Education, in collaboration with the Community Safety and Security Branch of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), has been engaged in several...

Minister of National Security, the Hon. Peter Bunting.

11 years ago National Security and PeaceParliamentSpeeches

Statement to Parliament by the Honourable Peter Bunting, MP Minister of National Security

Introduction Let me address two preliminary but important points before I get into the substance of my statement. Firstly, I would like to use this opportunity to express my condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of Constable Curtis Lewis who was attached to the Little London Police in Westmoreland. He died as result of injuries he sustained...

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. A.J. Nicholson.

11 years ago Foreign Affairs

Statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the Jamaican Incarcerated in Qatar

The Ministry notes the news reports of the early release of a Jamaican national incarcerated in Qatar. Nevertheless, the Ministry can confirm that up to today, 9th July 2015 the Jamaican national remained in custody. The Ministry understands that there is provision in the Qatari legal system for the remission of three months sentence for each year to be...

11 years ago EnvironmentPrime MinisterPrime Minister's Speeches

Prime Minister’s Speech at NWC’s Non-Revenue Water Contract Signing

REMARKS BY MOST HON. PORTIA SIMPSON MILLER PRIME MINISTER AT THE SIGNING OF THE NWC’S NON-REVENUE WATER CONTRACT WITH MIYA WEDNESDAY JULY 8, 2015 Salutation Dr Alwin Hales - Master of Ceremonies and Permanent Secretary Ministry of Water, Land, Environment & Climate Change Mr Andrew Holnes - Leader of the Opposition Honourable Robert Pickersgill - Minister of...

Minister of Youth & Culture, the Hon. Lisa Hanna.

11 years ago CultureSpeeches

Statement to the World Heritage Committee

Statement to the World Heritage Committee Delivered by Honourable Lisa Hanna, MP Minister of Youth and Culture Bonn, Germany, July 2015 Madam Chair, Colleagues I speak on behalf of the Government and people of Jamaica in humbly expressing our gratitude to the World Heritage Committee for its decision to inscribe the Blue and John Crow Mountains to the World...

Leader of Government Business in the Senate, Hon. A.J Nicholson, addresses a recent sitting of the Upper House.

11 years ago ParliamentSpeeches

Sen. Nicholson’s Statement on Global Processes for Sustainable Development

Senate Statement Senator the Honourable Arnold J. Nicholson, QC, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade on the Global Processes for Sustainable Development: Post-2015 Development Agenda, Financing for Development, Climate Change, 26th June 2015 Mr. President, The international mechanism for pushing global development over the last fifteen years - the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - will come to an...