Motorists brave the mid-morning sun outside the Corporate Area Traffic Court on South Camp Road on Tuesday (January 31), in a final effort to settle outstanding traffic tickets ahead of the new Road Traffic Act coming into effect on Wednesday (February 1). The Government had offered motorists with outstanding tickets a reprieve to allow them to pay their fines and...

Jamaica’s presence at the recently concluded international trade fair in Spain has reaped tremendous benefits for the island’s recovering tourism sector, says Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett. In an interview with JIS News, Mr. Bartlett said the visit by a high-powered Jamaican delegation, which included Director of Tourism, Donovan White and Chief Strategist and Senior Adviser in the Ministry...

To fully realise its vast agro-ecotourism potential, the Mulberry Valley Estate in Friendship Gap, St. Mary, has received a pledge of support from Agriculture and Fisheries Minister, Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr. The 20-acre property is owned by entrepreneurs, Jeffrey “Agent Sasco” Campbell, and wife Nicole. The Minister joined the couple on a tour of the estate on Thursday (January 26)...

Jamaica will once again prove itself a pioneer when it launches the first ever Global Tourism Resilience Institute in February. Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, made the announcement while addressing the recent launch of the Global Tourism Resilience Conference. The conference will be hosted at the University of the West Indies Regional Headquarters in St. Andrew, from February 15 to17....

Approximately 200 persons have been invited to physically attend the inaugural Global Tourism Resilience Conference, slated for February 15 to 17 at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Regional Headquarters in St. Andrew. Other participants will be able to register at no cost and join virtually. This was announced by Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, during the Conference’s...

Jamaica’s tourism sector continues to rebound strongly from the COVID-19 pandemic-induced economic fallout, generating earnings of US$3.64 billion in 2022. Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, made this disclosure during Tuesday’s (January 10) sitting of the House of Representatives. “We ended the year equalling the record-breaking earnings of tourism of US$3.64 billion, and the [2022/23] fiscal year, which I will report...

Coffee lovers, both locally and internationally, can mark Saturday, March 25, 2023 on their calendars as the date when the highly anticipated Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee Festival will make its grand return. The sixth staging of the annual event was launched today (January 9) at Devon House, in Kingston, and is set to take place at its traditional home –...

Jamaica’s resurgent tourism industry continues to largely spearhead the country’s gradual recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic economic fallout. The Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) reports that the ‘Hotels and Restaurants’ category dominated the sector outturns fuelling third quarter 2022 calendar year growth of 5.9 per cent, between July and September. A STATIN communiqué on Friday (December 30) indicated that this...

Jamaica is examining the hub and spoke model to address regional air transportation challenges. “The Caribbean is having a destination crisis, an air transportation crisis. There is no question about it, and Jamaica is going to have to play a critical role in enabling solutions [to] that problem by providing the hub-and-spoke arrangement,” Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett said....