Phillips said he had to call the IMF to ascertain whether it had approved a funding package for Jamaica. Without the funds, ...

On the streets of her poor district she’s known as Sister P. Portia Simpson-Miller played the gender card to gain the prime minister’s office she will occupy beginning today and it has gone ...

Phillips, the outgoing Member of Parliament for St Andrew East Central — which he has represented for 31 years — delivered a ...

So for many Jamaicans it was a morale booster when new Prime Minster Portia Simpson Miller announced in her inaugural address on Jan. 6 that she would “initiate the process of detachment” from ...

Portia Simpson-Miller on Thursday was sworn inas Jamaica’s new Prime Minister after being elected to the office on Dec. 29 — in a pre-election debate last month, Simpson-Miller came out in ...

President Obama is in Jamaica on Thursday, meeting with Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and more than a dozen other leaders from throughout the Caribbean. It's the first stop on a three-day ...

Jamaica's opposition leader, Portia Simpson Miller, is promising to lead an open government following preliminary election results that show a large victory for her party. Simpson Miller told ...

Supporters of former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, 66, shimmied and shouted in the capital, Kingston, as they heard that the center-right government of Prime Minister Andrew Holness had ...

When Jamaica’s prime minister, Portia Simpson Miller, brought up the topic, Mr. Cameron said he hoped the two countries could “move on from this painful legacy, and continue to build for the ...

Jamaica is celebrating 50 years of independence from Britain. At her inaugural address, newly elected Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller said the anniversary provides an opportunity for Jamaica.

Supporters of Portia Simpson-Miller cheered her campaign anthem, “It’s Woman Time Now,” while the 51-year-old government minister of local government and sport was sworn in as Jamaica’s first female ...