Jamaica Tourism Minister thanks St. James public health workers

Jamaica Tourism Minister thanks St. James public health workers
Jamaica Tourism Minister thanks health workers

Jamaica Tourism Minister, Hon. Edmund Bartlett (seen left in the photo) expresses sincere appreciation to St. James Public Health Department staff and other healthcare workers for their commitment in going the extra mile to vaccinate the public against the COVID-19 coronavirus.

  1. Jamaica Tourism Minister visited vaccination site at Montego Bay to thank health care workers in person.
  2. The nation is undergoing a vaccination blitz to inoculate the public against COVID-19.
  3. Minister Bartlett expressed the important role health workers play in revitalizing tourism and the economy.

Minister Bartlett lauded the workers as he visited the vaccination blitz site at the Montego Bay Convention Centre on Saturday, June 19, 2021. He underscored that healthcare workers have a crucial role to play in enabling the quick recovery, not just of the tourism sector, but of the Jamaican economy overall.   

The Jamaica Ministry of Tourism and its agencies are on a mission to enhance and transform Jamaicaโ€™s tourism product, while ensuring that the benefits which flow from the tourism sector are increased for all Jamaicans. To this end it has implemented policies and strategies that will provide further momentum for tourism as the engine of growth for the Jamaican economy. The Ministry remains committed to ensuring that the tourism sector makes the fullest contribution possible to Jamaicaโ€™s economic development given its tremendous earning potential.

At the Ministry, they are leading the charge to strengthen the linkages between tourism and other sectors such as agriculture, manufacturing, and entertainment, and in so doing encourage every Jamaican to play their part in improving the countryโ€™s tourism product, sustaining investment, and modernizing and diversifying the sector to foster growth and job creation for fellow Jamaicans. The Ministry sees this as critical to Jamaicaโ€™s survival and success and has undertaken this process through an inclusive approach, which is driven by the Resort Boards, through wide-scale consultation.

Recognizing that a collaborative effort and a committed partnership between the public and private sectors will be needed to achieve set targets, central to the Ministryโ€™s plans is maintaining and nurturing its relationship with all key stakeholders. In so doing, it is believed that with the Master Plan for Sustainable Tourism Development as a guide and the National Development Plan โ€“ Vision 2030 as a benchmark โ€“ the Ministryโ€™s goals are achievable for the benefit of all Jamaicans.

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