Mahama addresses the joint sitting of Jamaican Lower/Upper Houses in Kingston

President Mahama in his address said Ghana joined Jamaica in honouring the remarkable journey of a proud people whose courage, creativity and resilience continued to inspire the whole of Africa, the Caribbean and the global African diaspora.

President Mahama, who is on a state to the Caribbean Island nation, was received jointly into the Chamber by the Speaker of the Jamaican House of Representatives, Mrs Juliet Holness, and the President of the Senate of Jamaica, Mr Thomas Tavares-Finson.

He noted that it was a story of civilisations that advanced human knowledge, of freedom fighters who challenge oppression, of innovators who expanded the frontiers of science and technology, of artists whose creativity enriches global culture and of statesmen and women who inspired nations to believe in the possibilities of freedom and self-determination.