Prime Minister Andrew Holness - file photo
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Prime Minister Andrew Holness, while acknowledging that Jamaica will not get to developed country status by 2030, has asserted that it is among the top performers among its regional counterparts.
Mr Holness, who was addressing a Diaspora Townhall in New York Saturday evening, said progress is still being made.
The Prime Minister listed significant levels of absolute poverty and crime and violence, as well as poor infrastructure, as challenges to development.
He said these challenges had their genesis in the difficult social conditions that fueled the Morant Bay Uprising in 1865.
Vision 2030 was conceptualised as the country's first strategic development plan, covering the 21 year period from 2009 to 2030.
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