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Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett (left), addressing the press briefing on the Tourism Enhancement Fund/EXIM Bank loan facility at the Ministry’s offices in New Kingston on Wednesday, August 30. Looking on is Managing Director, National Export-Import Bank of Jamaica (EXIM), Lisa Bell. The loan facility, which was launched in September 2016, will allow operators of small and medium-sized tourism enterprises (SMTE) to access loans.
Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett (left), addressing the press briefing on the Tourism Enhancement Fund/EXIM Bank loan facility at the Ministry’s offices in New Kingston on Wednesday, August 30. Looking on is Managing Director, National Export-Import Bank of Jamaica (EXIM), Lisa Bell. The loan facility, which was launched in September 2016, will allow operators of small and medium-sized tourism enterprises (SMTE) to access loans.

TEF Provides Additional $350M for EXIM Bank Loan Facility

By: Chris Patterson , September 1, 2017
The Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) has allocated an additional $350 million to the National Export-Import (EXIM) Bank of Jamaica to continue the provision of loans to the operators of small...
Minister of Tourism and Member of Parliament for East Central St. James, Edmund Bartlett (left), congratulates scholarship recipient, Paige Gordon, at the East Central St. James Scholarship and Welfare Fund's 2017 Tertiary Awards Function at the Iberostar Hotel in St. James on August 27. At right is Denise Dear, a member of the Awards Committee. Ms. Gordon received $200,000, which will assist with her studies at the University of the West Indies.

Bartlett Gives $10 Million from Scholarship Fund to Help Students

By: Garwin Davis , August 30, 2017
Executive Director at the Tourism Product Development Company (TPDCo), Dr. Andrew Spencer. (FILE)

TPDCo Implements Measures to Prevent Tourist Harassment

By: Kadian Brown, August 30, 2017

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Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett (2 nd right), is introduced to Tourism Product Development Company Limited’s (TPDCo) Manager of the Year for 2015/2016, Julian Thompson (left), by Community Awareness Coordinator, Marlene Stephenson- Dally (right), at the company’s staff service awards function held at the Caymanas Golf and Country Club in St. Catherine on July 18. Sharing in the moment (from 2 nd left) are Employee of the Year awardees Doreen Forrester and Lorna Newsome. Mrs. Stephenson-Dally was named Manager of the Year for 2013/14 and 2014/15.
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