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Poverty to Prosperity
Budget Presentation
Gordon House March 19, 2015
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Video Arraignment has been used to reduce the cost of transporting detainees. It also
assists with ensuring public safety and reducing the amount of court personnel needed at
the initial stage of the legal process.
Mr. Speaker, we know how to fight crime. The facts of history show we know how to
implement the solutions. This is the only way we can move Jamaica from Poverty to
Prosperity.
Financing Universal Access to Healthcare: A Model for Jamaica
Mr. Speaker, a vision for moving our people from Poverty to Prosperity must come from the
knowledge that we cannot have sustained growth without a healthy population.
The abolition of user-fees on April 1 2008, at public hospitals by the last Labour Party
administration represented a quantum leap towards the achievement of universal
healthcare, greater social equity, and improved human development.
The “No User Fee Policy” was primarily effected by the government increasing its budgetary
allocation to off-set the abolition of fees. In the 2006/07 budget, of the $19.5b allocated to
the health sector, user fees contributed a mere $1.7b.