Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, has announced that Karisma Hotels and Resort is set to break ground in the first quarter of next year for a 4,800-room, multi-resort development project in St Ann. ...
Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, says beginning December, Jamaica will see an increase in flights out of South America, which will bring more visitors from the continent to the island. He sa...
Veteran politician, Edmund Bartlett, the Member of Parliament (MP) for East Central St James and Tourism Minister of Jamaica, recently handed over scholarships amounting to some $10 million to nearly ...
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has sounded a warning that "a little shake-up" is coming for the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ), even with the state agency now on the verge of making a surplus after be...
Symphony of the Seas, the world’s largest cruise ship and prime jewel in Royal Caribbean’s Oasis-class vessels, is slated to make its inaugural call to Jamaica next year. With a carrying capacity o...
Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett, says the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Cooperation in the Field of Tourism, signed between Jamaica and the Republic of Kenya, will result in greater interactio...
Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, has expressed high hopes for broad expansion of the island’s agriculture-related tourism base. In addressing the Denbigh show in Clarendon on Sunday, Bartlett sai...
The Ministry of Tourism says it is offering hundreds of youth the opportunity to gain invaluable work experience within the hospitality sector, through the ‘Spruce Up Jamaica’ Tourism Summer Inte...
The unprecedented levels of sargassum seaweed that washed up on Caribbean beaches in 2018 resulted in estimated clean-up costs of US$120 million, according to Jamaica's Minister of Tourism and Co-Chai...
Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett is reiterating that there are no discussions being held about taxing local Airbnb providers. Airbnb is an online marketplace which allows people to rent their...