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PNPPEOPLES NATIONAL PARTY
ACHIEVEMENTS FOR JAMAIC
PNPPEOPLES NATIONAL PARTY
ACHIEVEMENTS FOR JAMAICA
March 2011
Published by the Peoples National Party89 Old Hope Road, Kingston
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Rt. Excellent Norman Washington Manley
JAMAICA First, PEOPLE First
PNP ACHIEVEMENTS FOR JAMAICA
(Milestones of Equality, Integrity & Participation Othe Road to Building The New Jamaica)
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Priority 1938 to Now
1. Equality of Economic Opportunity (Training, J
& Entrepreneurship including land ownershi
2. Equality of Social Opportunity (Educaon,
Housing, Health Care, Safety, Jusce)
Norman Manley 1938-1962
(Solid foundaons for a Naon. The man with the plan
In Government 1955-1962
1. The right to vote 1944
2. Secondary/High School place through ability
wealth (Common Entrance Exams)
3. Polical Independence (1962)
4. Developed tourism sector, especially Negril
5. Developed bauxite sector
6. Bank of Jamaica
7. Jamaica Development Bank
8. Central Planning Unit/Planning Instute of
Jamaica (1955)
9. Agricultural and Industrial Development
Corporaon (Jampro)
10. Scienc Research Council (1960)
11. Farm Development Programme
31. Local Government Reform
Established municipality of Portmore
Direct elecon of Mayor of Portmore
More nances to Parish Councils
More autonomy for Parish Councils
32. Media
TVJ ( divestment of JBC, which was created
by the PNP)
IRIE FM (divestment of Radio North East)
Hot 102 FM (Divestment of JBC Radio West)
KLAS Sport Radio (Divestment of Radio
Central)
Organised Cable Industry
Access to Informaon Act
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12. Titles Act
13. Beach Control Act
14. Watershed Protecon Act
15. Jamaica Welfare (Social Development Commission)
16. Jamaica Informaon Service
17. Naonal Stadium (Directed construcon himself)18. Encouraged creaon of Jamaica Amateur Athlec
Associaon, Jamaica Boxing Board of Control
19. Jamaica Youth Corps
20. Jamaica Instute of Technology (1958)/College
of Arts Science and Technology (1959)/University
of Technology (1995)
21. Advocate for a West Indian University (University
College of the West Indies 1948/University of
the West Indies 1961)
22. Encouraged Jamaican naonal cultural movement
(art, theatre, dance, music, literature)
23. Posion against Apartheid in South Africa (1950s)
24. Rasta Mission to Africa (1960)
25. Small Business Loan Board
26. Jamaica Broadcasng Corporaon
27. Technical & Vocaonal Educaon
28. Development Finance Corporaon
Police Public Complaints Authority (INDECO
Bureau of Special Invesgaons (INDECOM
Public Defender
Court Reporters Training School
Jusce Training Instute
29. Women
Domesc Violence Act 1996
Property (Rights of Spouses) Act 2003
Child Care Protecon Law 2004
Early Childhood Development
Registraon and Security of Day Care
Centres 2005
Work on the Sexual Harassment Law start
Sexual Oences Unit
30. Family Values
Values and Atudes Campaign
Oences Against the Person (Amendment)
Incest Punishment (Amendment) Law
Child Pornography and Obscene Publica
(Amendment) Laws
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Police Public Complaints Authority (INDECOM)
Bureau of Special Invesgaons (INDECOM)
26. Environment
Creaon of Naonal Environmental
Protecon Agency (NEPA) Created Environment Trust Fund
27. Consumer Protection
Oce of Ulies Regulaon created
Fair Trading Commission established
28. Delivering Justice
New Court Houses (Cambridge, St. James;
Santa Cruz; Port Maria; Port Antonio;
Contract signed for Balaclava; Others restored
Work started on Vicms Charter
Computerised Court System
Night Courts
Reintroduced & expanded Family Court
Witness Protecon Programme
COSPROD enterprises for help rehabilitaon
of prisonersThe Most Hon. Michael Manley OM, OCC, PC
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Michael Manley 1972-1980
1. Bauxite Levy to fund naonal development
2. Community Enterprises (more than 100)
3. Sugar Cooperaves
4. Land Reform & Distribuon
5. Naonal Housing Trust6. Massive Housing Programme
(More than 40,000 houses)
Urban Re-Housing
Indigent Housing
7. Special Employment Programme (11,500 jobs)
8. Youth Employment Programme (7,000 jobs)
9. Workers Parcipaon
10. Labour Relaons and Industrial Disputes Act11. Introduced Minimum Wage
12. Rent Restricon Act
13. Free Educaon to University
14. GC Foster College (1st instuon for training
physical educators)
15. Cultural Training Centre (Edna Manley College)
16. Teachers College at Passley Gardens
17. Jamaica School of Agriculture
18. Elim Agricultural School
25. Governance
Consensus building in governance
Consultave Government
Detribalising polics
De-garrisonisaon (eg. Denham Town housin
Equity in SESP distribuon No vicmisaon in public sector employme
Opened Public Accounts and other Commie
of Parliament to the media and the public
Corrupon Prevenon Act
Parliament (Integrity of Members) Act
Public Bodies Management and
Accountability Act
Corrupon Prevenon Commission Integrity Commission (Naonal, Party)
Naonal Contracts Commission
Electoral Commission of Jamaica
Access to Informaon
E-government: NLA, Jamaica Customs,
Inland Revenue, Registrar General,
Companies Oce of Jamaica, etc
Public Sector Reform - Creaon of Execu
Agencies
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19. Built 4 Community Colleges
20. Built 67 new primary schools
21. Built 44 new secondary schools
22. Expanded 129 secondary schools
23. Built 93 Infant schools
24. Built and supported 400 basic schools25. Naonal Youth Service
26. Introduced Students Councils (Democracy in Scho
27. Electoral Advisory Commiee
28. Ombudsman
29. Jamaica Movement for the Advancement of Litera
(JAMAL)/Foundaon for Life Long Learning (200,0
graduates)
30. Maternity Leave with Pay31. Equal Pay for Women
32. Status of Children Act (No Bastard No Deh Aga
33. Repealed Master and Servants Act
34. Family Court established
35. Womens Bureau
36. Womens Centre
37. Naonal Day Care Programme
38. School Feeding Programme (Jamaica Nutrio
Holdings Ltd)
Introduced Generic Drug Programme
to lower cost
Emergency Medical Service started
90% Immunisaon coverage for children
surpassing 50% average in developed countries
Introduced Nurse Assistant TrainingProgramme in Community College
Expanded training of nurses
23. Possibility Programme to help street children
24. Opportunities & Assistance for the Persons
with Disability
Allowed to sit Common Entrance for rst me Dedicated bus service
Computer training
Job market training
Income tax exempon
Early Smulaon Project for children with
disabilies
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39. Free School Uniform Programme
40. Schools Dental Nurses
41. Community Health Centres
42. Community Health Aides (More than 1,000)
43. Maternity Centres (Spanish Town, Lucea, Black
River, Port Morant, Fair Prospect, Dias, ChesterCastle)
44. Expansion of Victoria Jubilee Hospital
45. Built Intensive Care Units at KPH, Bustamante
Childrens Hospital, University Hospital
46. New Nurses Training Centre at Cornwall Regional
Hospital
47. Sites and Services Programme
(Community Development)48. Water Supplies and Water Tank programme
beneng more than 300,000 Jamaicans
49. Rural Electricaon (30,000 homes wired
beneng 270,00 Jamaicans)
50. Recognion of Nanny and Sam Sharpe as
Naonal Heroes
51. Rebirth of Instute of Jamaica
52. Naonal Gallery (1974)53. Copyright law
22. Health
Construcon of New and Expansion of Exis
Hospitals
Naonal Health Fund (NHF) 284,000 pers
enrolled for subsidised medicines (Arthris,
Breast Cancer, Glaucoma, Diabetes, RheumaFever, Heart Disease, Prostate Cancer, Depressi
Psychosis, Asthma, Epilepsy, Hypertension, H
Cholesterol, Vascular disease); 2 million prescript
lled in 2006
Jamaica Drug for the Elderly (JDEP) 135,00
persons helped ($300 million)
Abolished fees for children zero to 18 yea
in public hospitals Paral or full waiver of hospital user fees
other needy users
New May Pen Hospital built
Hospital construcon and renovaon
May Pen, Annoo Bay, Mandeville, Blac
River, Falmouth, Cornwall Regional, St. An
Bay, KPH, Bellevue
More than 50 new ambulances bought More pay for doctors, nurses and other
health workers6
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20. Community Infrastructure
95% electricity coverage
JSIF: $10 billion to 2006;
(Hundreds of projects roads, health
centres, community centres, libraries,
schools, water supplies) Expansion of Rural Electricaon
(peoples Infrastructure/economic infrastructure)
Li Up Jamaica programme
Funding from CHASE Fund
21. Sports and Community Development
Trelawny Mul-Purpose Stadium
Sligoville mini-stadium, St. Catherine Catherine Hall mini-stadium, Montego Bay
Upgraded Jarre Park, Montego Bay
Upgraded Elleston Wakeland Centre, Falmouth
Sports Development Foundaon 1995
built and upgraded sports centres islandwide
The Most Hon. PJ Patterson OCC, PC, QC
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Naonal Firearm and Drug Intelligence Cen
Community Policing
Neighbourhood Watch
Bicycle Patrol
19. Peoples InfrastructureWater
- 90% access to potable water in 2007 up fr
just over 50% in 1989
- 28 major water systems, many more smal
water systems
- Great River Water system, Hanover, St. Jam
- Lucea/Negril system
- Martha Brae to Harmony Hall system, Trelaw- Darliston Water Supply
- Providing more than 300 communies with Wa
- Rural Water supply (Coerwood, St. Elizabe
Mango Valley, St. Mary
- 100 water trucks (Rapid Response Unit)
- Greater Mandeville system
- Forest Hill/Rock Hall system
- Hope Bay/St. Margarets Bay system- Newell/Newcombe Valley
The Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller MP
JAMAICA First, PEOPLE First
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1989 2007 Michael Manley, PJ Patterson,
Portia Simpson Miller
(Pung People First as We Transformed and Moderni
Jamaicas Economic and Social Infrastructure)
1. Five Year Development Plan
2. Naonal Industrial Plan3. Vision 2030 Jamaica Plan
4. Economic Transformation & Stability
2.5% GDP growth in 2006
Agriculture grew 15.9% in 2006
Export agriculture grew 47.4% in 2006
Fishing sector grew 50% in 2006
Bauxite producon reached highest level
since 1974 Foreign Exchange earnings tripled since
1988 to US$1.1 billion in 2006
Expansion of Jamalco doubling its bauxite
alumina producon capacity
New limestone industry created fuelled b
growth in bauxite sector
Record investment projects
Tourism grew 17%, cruise ship arrivals grew 1 Record 3 million visitors in 2006
17. Wealth Creation
$4 Billion in micro and small business loans
MIDA: Business loans to more than 23,000
persons since 1992 totalling more than $430
million
$1 billion loan programme from NaonalInsurance Fund for micro and small business
SESP revolving loans - $60 million to 2003
Self Start Fund: 1,000 persons per year
Operaon STRIVE (Strategy to Rehabilitate
the Innercity Through Viable Enterprises)
18. National Security and Safety
Beer pay for police men and women Improved training
More equipment
Applicaon and use of technology
Internaonal co-operaon against drug
tracking and gun smuggling
Foreign experse to assist local personnel
More than 3,000 new vehicles
Regulaon of private security companies Built and upgraded many police staons
Drug Court
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Inaon 5.8% in 2006 lowest in 30 years;
Under 10% for seven straight years
9.6% unemployment in 2006 lowest ever
Interest rates reduced 4 mes in 2006 to
lowest levels in 20 years
Net Internaonal Reserves at $2.3 billion in2007 from negave US$653 million in 1989
Reduced personal income tax from 33.3% to 25%
5. Reform of the Financial Sector
Jamaica Deposit Insurance Corporaon created
Financial Services Commission/Securies
Commission established
6. Stabilising the Economy7. Liberalisaon of the Foreign Exchange Market
8. Tourism
Tourism Master Plan
Sunset Resorts Montego Bay and Ocho Rios,
redevelopment and expansion through
divestment
Ritz Carlton Hotel, Rose Hall, Montego Bay Hedonism 3 Runaway Bay
16. Poverty Reduction
(Naonal Poverty Eradicaon Programme) 199
Poverty reduced to 9% from 30% in 1989
26 programmes in 9 ministries spending
$42 billion (1995-2005) including educao
health, community development, socialsecurity, land tling, housing, urban renew
Poverty Alleviaon Through Health and
Educaon PATH 252,000 persons to 2002-2
(children 0-17 & to sixth form years, elder
people with disability, pregnant and breas
feeding mothers), youth at risk, people w
HIV/AIDS ; Increased school aendance a
access to prevenve health care Land tling (150,00 to 2003)
Compassionate grants
Emergency relief
Golden Age feeding programme
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Grand Palladium, Point, Hanover
Grand Bahia Principe, Pear Tree Boom,
Runaway Bay, St. Ann
Palmyra Luxury Resort, Montego Bay
Riu 1, 2, (Negril) 3 (Ocho Rios) & 4 (Montego B
Iberostar, Rose Hall, St. James Sandals Whitehouse
Started planning & nancing for Harmony
Cove, Trelawny
Falmouth Cruise Ship Pier
Expansion of Montego Bay and Ocho Rios
Cruise ship terminals
Montego Bay Convenon Centre
South Coast Tourism Development Tourism Product Development Company
Pebbles Resort, Runaway Bay
Youth Advisory Commiee for Tourism
Tourism in School Curriculum
30,000 jobs created
Port Antonio marina
Melrose Hill Bypass
Mount Rosser Bypass
Papine to Bu Bay
Dualisaon of Howard Cooke Blvd, Montego Bay
Savanna-la-Mar to Negril
Port of Kingston Expansion (5 phases) $3.5 billion Road programme
More than 20 bridges
Built and expanded urban roadways:
Washington Blvd., Hope Road, Trafalgar
Road, Michael Manley Boulevard, Mandela
Highway
15. Liberalisation of the TelecommunicationsMarket
1991: Cell phone introduced
1999: Liberalised telecoms markets with
arrival of Digicel
Now more than 2.7 million cell phones
Before 1999 217,000 persons on waing list
for telephone service, some waing for years
High speed broadband Internet More than US$700 million investment to 2006
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9. Education
Greater Access to Terary Educaon
(Students Loans and Grants)
School Feeding/Nutrion programme
Billions of dollars in terary students loans
and grants to thousands of needy students SESP support for needy students
Built 17 new basic, primary and high schools
in Western Jamaica under $3.8 Billion North
Western Jamaica School Building Programme
64 schools built and refurbished
More Universies (From 1 to 3)
658 schools repaired
Computer educaon in schools: $500 Millionreading room and computer lab programme
Increased teachers salaries
Naonal Youth Service re-introduced
Special Training and Empowerment
Programme (STEP)
Early childhood enrolment increased to 98%
for 4 and 5 year-olds
GSAT improved on Common Entrance
13. Land (Operaon PRIDE 300,000 persons
acquired land)
14. Infrastructure for Growth
Airport: Sangster Int. 2003 divestment.
Connecons to almost 100 cies and 3connents, 60 airlines
Norman Manley Internaonal upgrading an
reconstrucon since 1999
North Coast Highway from Negril to Port Anton
Highway 2000 (First comprehensive
modernisaon of the major roads in Jamai
in 200 years)
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Improved CXC performance
$3.3 Billion textbook programme
Early Childhood Commission established
HEART Trust/NTA 100,000 enrolment
College trained teachers increased to 85%
$600 Million Development Loan Fund for Teach
In 2006 1,200 keys handed over under
Innercity Housing Programme (Trench Town,
Monaltrie, Spanish Town Road)
Commitment to deliver total 5,000 innercity
houses
2,754 sugar housing units in 2006(Monymusk, New Yarmouth, Appleton)
400 more lots at Bernard Lodge,
30,000 acres of cane land to sugar workers
NHT instructed to nd land to build houses
for teachers, nurses, public servants, young
professionals
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10. Liberalisaon of the Motor Vehicle Industry
11. Transformation of the Public Transport
More than 600 new buses
Bus service for civil servants and children
Half-Way Tree Transport Centre Montego Bay Transport Centre
New, orderly route taxi system
Schools bus service
Dedicated bus service for persons with disability
12. Housing
Greater Portmore Housing Development
(more than 20,000 houses) NHT e.g. Manley Meadows, Kingston;
Oaklands in St. Andrew; Greenpond,
Rosemount, Westgreen, Catherine Hall,
Bogue in St. James; Longville Park, Clarendon;
Morris Meadows, St. Catherine
Joint Venture
Relocaon 2000
Indigent Housing 150,000 houses in 18 years (1989-2007)