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...

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...

Mr. Speaker, I am grateful for the opportunity to address this Honourable House, once again, on the nation’s flagship Overseas Employment Programme, in particular, the pre-selection exercise planned by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security for the Canadian Farm Work Programme to be held between August 10 -28, 2015.   NEW DIRECTION I propose to execute my address this...

Mr Speaker, I wish to update this Honourable House on matters related to the Education Sector. I begin by presenting a preliminary report on the performance of students on the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) for 2015. The results will be available to the primary level institutions on the evening of Wednesday June 17, 2015.   The Grade Six Achievement...

Mr. Speaker, you will recall that I addressed this Honourable House last week on the current dry spell and its impact on the agricultural sector. We have since, thankfully, got a little sprinkling, but we are by no means letting down our guards. In fact, the Government of Jamaica and, in particular, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, has been...

Address to the Nation By the Prime Minister Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller ON, MP On Issues Affecting Children   My fellow Jamaicans   The month of May is celebrated as Child Month and on Friday, May 15, we observed National Children’s Day.   This year, our children will also be the focus of Labour Day activities on Monday, May...

Salutations   Current Dry Spell As was predicted, this year we are again experiencing the effects of the phenomena of global warming and climate change. This continues to manifest itself not just in the lack of rainfall, but also in the forest and farm fires which have resulted from the current dry spell. In light of this, I wish to...