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May 27, 2021
Our Minister of Tourism and International Transport Senator Lisa Cummins must certainly be wondering what else could go wrong in her Ministry.
In the middle of a pandemic and a near global economic recession caused by the health crisis, Senator Cummins was given what could be considered the most important Ministry in the Mottley Cabinet.
In her biggest shakeup of Cabinet since her overwhelming victory at the polls in 2018, Mottley made the decision to switch the sharp-tongued, politically savvy, and ambitious St James Central Member of Parliament, Kerrie Symmonds, for the untested, young, articulate senator.
Though no stranger to how Government operates, having worked in the foreign service and is the holder of advanced certification in international trade, Senator Cummins, may still find it useful to re-examine her handling of the list of controversies that have followed her short tenure.
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The new theme of the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. (BTMI) which was launched to the world last week is now under more scrutiny.
BTMI chairman Roseanne Myers told the
DAILY NATION yesterday that certain information had come to their attention since the launch of the country’s new
Little Island, Big Barbados theme, indicating it was a virtual carbon copy to that of a number of other tourist-island destinations across the world and inclusive of the Eastern Caribbean.
“I have seen this and am doing an internal review so we can get the full details and history to be able to respond. An internal discussion has commenced, and further comment will be made thereafter,” Myers said, after a collage of pictures displaying the many other destinations using the Little Island theme started making the rounds on social media.
President of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP), Verla de Peiza feels Barbadian taxpayers should get their money back after the job done by the Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. (BTMI) in relaunching the island s tourism product. Her comments come after it trended on social media over the weeked that BTMI s
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Minister of Tourism Senator Lisa Cummins has spoken out in defence of the new Barbados slogan Little Island, Big Barbados.
The Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. (BTMI) revealed the slogan as part of a rebranding and marketing strategy to present a refreshed image of Barbados as a destination with a wide range of offerings to the visitor, during a virtual ceremony to relaunch Barbados’ tourism product.
Features such as adventure, flavour, personality and legacy were highlighted as areas that Barbados was “big on” and marketing manager at the BTMI, Tenisha Holder, said the intention was to showcase a lot more of what Barbados had to offer than what was customarily highlighted.