Portia Simpson Miller, Prime Minister of Jamaica
PRIME MINISTER Portia Simpson Miller will today be conferred with the Order of the Nation (ON) at an investiture ceremony at King's House beginning at 9:00 a.m. With the conferment, the Prime Minister will have the title of Most Honourable.
Governor-General Professor Kenneth Hall will give a welcome address after which the president of the Jamaica Council of Churches, Rev. Phillip Robinson, will give the opening prayer.
This is to be followed by a fanfare of trumpets after which an orator will read the instrument for the investiture of the Prime Minister as a member of the Order of the Nation. Chief Justice Lensley Wolfe will then make his remarks and the Prime Minister will then respond.
The Order of the Nation was instituted in 1973 by regulations made under the National Honours and Awards Act and is the second highest Order of the Five Societies of Honour, with the highest being the Order of National Hero.
As explained in the Directory of the Orders of the Jamaican Societies of Honour, the members of the Order are entitled to wear the Insignia of the Order as a deco-ration and to use the post nominal letters 'O.N.'; and, they should be referred to as 'The Most Honourable'.
Prime Minister Simpson Miller's husband, Errald Miller, is also entitled to be addressed as The Most Honourable.
Past and present prime ministers were first conferred with this
honour in 2002.
