Tourism Minister Hon. Edmund Bartlett (right) receives the RJRGLEANER Hospitality Jamaica 2019 Pioneer Award from RJR Communications Group CEO Gary Allen.

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Tourism Minister Hon. Edmund Bartlett (second right) in conversation with (L-R) CEO and Director General for the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA), Frank Comito; Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Country Representative for Jamaica, Therese Turner-Jones and Division Chief Environment, Rural Development, and Disaster Risk Management at the IDB, Pedro Martel. The occasion was a two-day Tourism Crisis Communications workshop hosted by the IDB and the Ministry of Tourism.

Tourism Minister Hon Edmund Bartlett (R) warmly welcomes passengers arriving on the reintroduced daily nonstop American Airlines service between New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and Montego Bay's Sangster International Airport. Sharing in the occasion are United States Ambassador to Jamaica, Donald Tapia (R) and Director of Tourism Donovan White (2ndR).

Tourism Minister Hon Edmund Bartlett takes time out for a selfie ahead of the graduation ceremony for the 3rd Cohort of certified hospitality workers from the Jamaica Centre of Tourism Innovation (JCTI). Some 415 candidates received certificates at the recent ceremony at the Montego Bay Convention Centre, St. James.