Premier Ewart Brown congratulated Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller on 45 of years of independence.

In a letter to the Prime Minister he wrote: ""Bermuda and Jamaica have a history of people transplanted from the other's shores.

"Many Jamaicans are here working and raising their children; overwhelmingly they are positive additions to our community.

"We are grateful to accept them as our own."

Jamaica became an independent nation on August 5, 1962.