Jamaica PM in NY to give perspective on security threats facing Ja, C’bean

By Michelle Nurse Last updated Jul 30, 2015

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller will on Thursday address a special United Nations (UN) Open Debate on Peace and Security Challenges Facing Small Island Developing States (SIDS) at the UN Headquarters in New York.

A release from the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) said the prime minister was invited to give the Jamaican and Caribbean perspective during the panel discussion on the issue. The other panellists from SIDS Member States are the Prime Minister of Samoa Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi and the Seychelles Minister of Finance, Trade and the Blue Economy Jean Pail Adam.

Simpson Miller is expected to outline Jamaica’s efforts to secure its people, protect its borders and participate in global peace and security initiatives. She will underscore the close link between national, regional and global peace and security and economic and social development issues, the release said.