A decision years in the making, the naming honours the former prime minister whose vision and diplomatic persistence secured a landmark US$43 million gift from China for Jamaica’s most vulnerable patients — the children of western Jamaica.

MONTEGO BAY,  Jamaica, Calvin G. Brown |  May 26, 2026 - In a gesture that bridged partisan lines and settled a long-running campaign, Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced Monday that the Western Children and Adolescent Hospital in Montego Bay will bear the name of the Most Honourable Portia Simpson Miller — the woman who conceived it, championed it, and crossed the Pacific to make it real.