Jamaica and Ghana will chart pathways for deeper cooperation in multiple areas, Jamaican Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister Kamina Johnson Smith has said.
Addressing the launch ceremony of Ghana’s e-visa portal on Monday in Accra, Ghana’s capital, Smith said the two countries have held discussions on the advancement of areas of mutual interest, including tourism, culture, trade, and investment.
According to the minister, her visit to Ghana aimed to build on the Ghana-Jamaican partnership, which had already been buoyed strongly by the visit of her Ghanaian counterpart.
“Long before Jamaica and Ghana established formal diplomatic relations, we already had strong historical and fraternal ties, rooted in ancestry and shared heritage, manifested in our language, our cuisine, our customs, our music, and our ceremonial practices,” she said.
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She also thanked Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama and the people of Ghana for their help after a hurricane wreaked havoc on Jamaica last October.
Jamaica and Ghana share a longstanding relationship rooted in historical, cultural, and people-to-people ties dating back to the transatlantic slave trade, through which many ancestors of Jamaicans originated from present-day Ghana.
