Mrs. Portia Simpson Miller became Jamaica’s seventh Prime Minister on March 30, 2006, having served seventeen years as a senior Cabinet Minister for Labor and Welfare – among her many other portfolios.  She is the first Jamaican woman Prime Minister and was conferred with the “Order of the Nation” on May 29, 2006.  Mrs. Simpson Miller is a member of the Council of Women World Leaders, an international network of current and former women Presidents and Prime Ministers whose mission is to mobilize action on critical women’s issues.  

In March 2007, Mrs. Miller was awarded the International Olympic Committee’s 2007 World “Women and Sport” Trophy for her outstanding dedication to women in Jamaican sport - both as athletes and administrators.

The leading architect of Jamaica’s Master Plan for Sustainable Tourism Development, the Hon. Leader of the Opposition has been tireless in promoting and strengthening urban renewal and community development, leading to fundamental reforms in local government.