Ghana has been at the fore of supporting Jamaica to rebuilt after a devastating hurricane that caused huge damage to the people and the country.
Recently, Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa paid a two-day official and solidarity visit to Jamaica.
”I am grateful to my Jamaican counterpart and dear sister, Senator the Honourable Kamina Johnson Smith, JP, for the warm welcome at the airport and the exceptional hospitality of the Jamaican government”, Mr. Ablakwa noted.
A key objective of the visit was to directly interact with ”our gallant Ghanaian troops who have spent some six weeks here helping to rebuild Jamaica after the devastation and deaths caused by Hurricane Melissa”, Mr. Ablakwa noted.
He delivered a special message from Ghana’s Commander-in-Chief, H. E. John Dramani Mahama to the soldiers who were drawn from the celebrated 48 Engineer Regiment.
During this visit, he also held bilateral talks with Prime Minister of Jamaica, Dr. the Most Honourable Andrew Holness, ON, PC, MP.
This official trip also anticipated to finalise technical consultations towards the exportation of Ghanaian health workers and teachers to Jamaica this year.
The members of Ghana’s esteemed delegation to Jamaica include the Deputy Minister for Defence, Hon. Ernest Brogya Genfi; Presidential Special Envoy to the Caribbean, H.E. Kwasi Kyei Darkwah; Chief of the Army Staff, Major General Lawrence K. S. Gbetanu; high ranking military officials and senior directors from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Education and Health.
The Foreign Affairs Minister indicated that, ”the ancestral and familial bond between Ghana and Jamaica shall never ever be broken”.
