Ceremonial opening of Jamaican Parliament slated for February 14

The ceremonial opening of the Jamaican Parliament for fiscal yr 2023/24 takes place on Tuesday, at Gordon Home, starting at 11:00 a.m.

Governor Normal Sir Patrick Allen will ship the Throne Speech, through which he’ll define the Authorities’s priorities for the brand new fiscal yr, which begins April 1.

Not like the openings in 2021 and 2022, which had been curtailed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this yr’s ceremony will see a return to the total slate of invitees.

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Following the ceremony, the Home of Representatives will reconvene later within the afternoon for the tabling of the 2023/24 Estimates of Expenditure by Minister of Finance Dr. Nigel Clarke.

The Estimates will present particulars of how a lot the Authorities intends to spend on recurrent enterprise and capital tasks.

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