Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller has defended the country’s record of LGBTI rights.

Protestors descended on the 6th Biennal Jamaica Diaspora Conference in New York yesterday, where the PM was giving her keynote address.

The LGBTI activists demanded Simpson-Miller do more to stop the killing of gay, bi and trans people.

Just earlier this month, a gay man was stoned to death by an angry mob.

‘Nobody never hears the Government of Jamaica beating up gays; not one,’ she exclaimed to the audence.

Simpson-Miller said her People’s National Party Government differs from the previous administration of Bruce Golding, who said he would not allow gay people in his cabinet.

She also stressed she would not be ‘bullied by those who tell lies about Jamaica’s treatment of gays’.

‘Jamaica respects the human rights of all its citizens, including gays,’ Simpson-Miller added.

‘Jamaica will continue to rise and shine globally. Jamaica will rise and shine all over the world and no one man can stop that.’

Back in 2011, before becoming PM Simpson-Miller made a historic pledge to decriminalize homosexuality in Jamaica.

She didn’t follow through, claiming in 2014 the Government has to ‘consult our constituents’.

Dwayne Brown, a Jamaican gay rights activist currently living in New York City, has said in Jamaica anti-LGBTI attackers can brutally murder someone and not get caught.

Speaking to Gay Star News, he said: ‘It’s time for persecution of LGBTI persons to end. The silence of our government, the silence of our politicians, the silence of our community allows this type of behavior to continue.

‘Until the silence is broken, people will continue to die as a result of anti-gay attacks.’