Just over two years ago, as COVID-19 cut a swathe through the Caribbean striking in the process at the very heart of the region’s key Tourism industry, Jamaica’s Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett announced what might well have been considered the unthinkable, that the country’s highly prized and decidedly successful tourism industry was confronted with “imminent closure” given what a March 20, 2020 Jamaica Observer said had been the imposition of “travel restrictions on many of its source markets as well as local containment and restriction protocols.”
