Jamaica Ministers discuss investments with Saudi Arabia Minister of Investment
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Jamaica Tourism Minister Hon. Edmund Bartlett (seen right in the photo) and Minister without portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Senator, the Hon. Aubyn Hill (seen left) pause for a photograph with Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Investment, Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al-Falih, following a successful meeting in Saudi Arabia earlier today.
The Ministers are currently in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia participating in the UNWTO Tourism Recovery Summit.
They are also attending the 47th Meeting of the UNWTO Regional Commission for the Middle East.
Possible areas of collaboration and investment between Jamaica and Saudi Arabi were discussed.
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The St Kitts Nevis Observer
Photo: Garwin Davis, Jamaica Government Information Service . Tourism Minister Bartlett is now in the insurance business. How tourists will take to mandatory health insurance that must be purchased to enter Jamaica remains to be seen.
KINGSTON, Jamaica–December 16th, 2020–The Jamaica Ministry of Tourism is in discussions with international airlines regarding the implementation of the Jamaica Cares insurance program.
Speaking in the House of Representatives on December 15th, Tourism minister Edmund Bartlett, said the program is set to come on stream in the first quarter of 2021, although it had originally been scheduled to start in November, 2020.