Chief Justice Lensley Wolfe presents the proclamation and investiture as Member of the Order of the Nation to Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller at King's House yesterday. Mrs. Simpson Miller will thus carry the title 'The Most Honourable'. - JUNIOR DOWIE/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
TWO MONTHS after being inaugurated as Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller yesterday received the nation's second highest honour - the Order of the Nation (ON) - at a brief ceremony at King's House, St. Andrew. The Order of National Hero is the highest honour.
With the conferral of the ON, Mrs. Simpson Miller and her spouse, Errald, must now be officially addressed as 'The Most Honourable'.
Chief Justice Lensley Wolfe who placed the insignia of the Order of the Nation on Mrs. Simpson Miller offered congratulations and wished her success as Prime Minister.
In her remarks, the Prime Minister said she was privileged to have been given the opportunity to smash the glass ceiling, creating an opening for women in Jamaica to rise to any position in society.
Those in attendance at yesterday's investiture ceremony included Governor-General Professor Kenneth Hall and Mrs. Hall; former Governor-General Sir Howard Cooke; former Prime Minister Edward Seaga and Mrs. Seaga; and former Deputy Prime Minister Seymour Mullings. Former Prime Minister P.J. Patterson did not attend the ceremony, as he was said to be in Guyana receiving an award from that government, while Opposition Leader Bruce Golding was said to be overseas.
