Floyd Green, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Mining, says Jamaica is moving in the right direction under the stewardship of the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).

Green, while speaking at the JLP’s 81st Annual Conference on Sunday, November 24, told party supporters that Jamaica is progressing in all areas, including healthcare, infrastructure, and social programmes.

The minister argued that under the leadership of the JLP in three years, over 100 farm roads have been improved.

“Farm roads are just one area; they love to get on their platform and talk about how they are going to provide people with land and titles. They launched a programme decades ago and said they were going to give 200,000 titles to Jamaicans. I checked the history. Let me tell you what they did. In 2013, they produced 141 titles; in 2014, they produced 901 titles; in 2015, they produced 947 titles; and in their four years, they did fewer than 3,000 titles. Labourites, Jamaicans, let me tell you something: this government, in 2022, produced 6,000 titles through the systematic land titling programme. We have issued over 10,000 titles, putting titles in the hands of our people,” Green said.

For fisherfolk, Green said that under the governing JLP, the first fish sanctuary had been developed, while 18 boat engines had been distributed to fisherfolk in Pagee Beach, St Mary, and also in St Ann.

“If it is irrigation, this government has invested the most—over 10 billion. I hear them talk about storage. When they say farmers don’t have storage, ask them which storage they built. Because I can tell you right now, we are building storage in Downes, we are building storage in Parnassus, we are building storage in Kirk Vine, and we are building storage all over Jamaica so that farmers, when you have your produce, it doesn’t go to waste. You can store it, sell it, and make maximum return on your investment. We are moving forward with the Labour Party,” the agriculture minister said.

In closing, Green told party supporters, “I understand the frustration, a lot of us understand the issues that should have already been dealt with, whether it be water challenges, whether it be roads. But I say to you, do not throw away the baby with the bath water. We have come too far for us to turn back, we have worked too hard for us to go back. Andrew has done too much for this country for us to let it go to waste under the other side.”