Bartlett says tourism's return to be guided by task force

Ahmeenah Young

Ahmeenah Young, President and CEO of the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority, has been an influential voice in the tourism and hospitality industry for almost three decades. She leads the Center in developing its organizational policies to support providing the best customer-focused experience

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Seychelles: When Will Tourists Return to Seychelles? Hard to Predict, Official Says

Predicting developing trends for international holiday bookings in Seychelles is quite difficult at the moment, a top official of the Seychelles Tourism Board (STB) said on

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Current government officials

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Call for financial safety net for vulnerable workers

WITH thousands left reeling from sudden layoffs and redundancies in Jamaica and across the Caribbean as businesses try to weather the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, a call is being made for an unemployment insurance scheme, a living wage policy and legislation to protect contract

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Gadsden, James I. (1948- )

In 2002, Ambassador James Irvin Gadsden, career diplomat, and educator, was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as ambassador to Iceland. Gadsden was born on March 12, 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina, to James who worked as a janitor and Hazel Gaines Gadsden who was a housewife and

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Uganda: Bleak Forecast From Prolonged Lockdown in Uganda

Micro and small businesses in Uganda face a bleak future with a new report warning that should the current lockdown measures persist for six months, majority would close

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Government sidestepped farmers, says young grower

AS the COVID-19 pandemic hits all aspects of daily life, young Manchester farmer Andra Wynter is rueing what he says is the Jamaica Government's sidestepping of farmers in its offer to assist significant sectors of the

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Virus punctures Tunisia tourism rebound

As the novel coronavirus pandemic wipes out a recovery from jihadist attacks in 2015, Tunisia's vital tourism sector is trying to find ways to avoid going

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Rwanda: Inside Rwanda's Rwf186bn Economic Recovery Fund

The fund will support businesses through loan restructuring for the tourism sector specifically hotels, providing working capital for businesses most affected by COVID-19 to keep them operational and avoid lay-offs as well as loan guarantee for SMEs and

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Caribbean islands will need to be treated differently after COVID-19 | New York Carib News

Social and environmental vulnerabilities facing the Eastern Caribbean

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Kenya: Herb Farmers Crushed By Virus Blow to Exports

Mutuma, the managing director of herb exporter Jambofresh Kenya, has reaped the benefits of a thriving horticultural sector that has become a major driver of Kenya's export

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Kenya coronavirus: 2,216 cases; record 54 recoveries

June 3: 2,216 cases, record recoveries

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Geography of Jamaica

Population: 2,847,232 (July 2010

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UWI professor urges regional leaders to proceed cautiously

So if you take the countries, United States, Spain, the UK, France, China — these are the countries that are the largest tourism destinations in the world, and these are also the countries that have had the highest rates of

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Uganda: Researchers Project Bleak Future Over Long Lockdowns

Micro and small businesses face a bleak future with a new report warning that should the current lockdown persist, majority would close or have serious financial

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Dakar, Senegal (1857- )

Dakar was the political center of French West Africa and is the capital of modern Senegal. Located on Cape Verde, the westernmost point of the African mainland, Ndaxaru, known by its French name, Dakar, has been occupied at least since Europeans began to explore the area. The French, attracted by

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HELP OR HURT? - Unregulated ambulance services, uncertified emergency technicians could be putting public in danger

Three weeks after a probe revealed that most local private hospitals were unregistered, The Sunday Gleaner has learnt that the island’s private ambulance service is operating without oversight, putting members of the public at

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Uganda: Workers Feel the Pinch of COVID-19

Some governments have stared this bleak figure in the eye with all round economic stimulus packages which have included cuts to Pay As You Earn and corporation taxes like the Kenyan

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Source: allAfrica.com

Tourism timeline - Stakeholders pressure Gov’t to set date for reopening ports

THE ANDREW Holness administration has come under immense pressure from the powerful and influential Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA), which has called for a planned reopening date of the island’s borders for international and local

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Uganda: Our Manifesto Plan Now At 77 Percent - NRM

Government has said it has so far implemented 77.9 per cent of its manifesto in the last four years and that the remaining threshold will be completed before the next General

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Set a date

The Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) yesterday called on the Government to give the nation a clear indication of the reopening timeline for the country's borders and the resumption of both local and international

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Source: Jamaica Observer: Jamaican News Online – the Best of Jamaican Newspapers - JamaicaObserver.com

Uganda: As Lockdown Eases, Economy Faces Long Walk Back to Health

Although Uganda began to relax some of the lockdown rules last week, including allowing private vehicles to return to the roads, the country faces an uphill ride back to economic normalcy, a wide-ranging survey by this newspaper

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Hotels teeter on brink of collapse as Covid-19 bites

With zero per cent occupancy, Mr Ishpal Oberoi has to cough up Sh1.4 million every month to maintain his hotel on the shores of the Indian

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Hoteliers back pretesting of tourists

Pitching a working timeline of four to six weeks for the reopening of the tourism industry, the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) says it fully supports the pretesting of

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Region to adopt measures to ensure safety of citizens, tourists | New York Carib News

Mia Mottley

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Tanzania says virus defeated through prayer, but fears grow

All the while, President John Magufuli has led a crackdown on anyone who dares raise concerns about the virus's spread in his East African country or the Government's response to

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Tennessee Voices, Episode 32: Steven Lewis, curator, National Museum of African American Music

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Bermuda

Ethnicity/race: black African 58%, white and other

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Tunisia: Detention Order Against Businessman and Senior Civil Servant

Tunis/Tunisia — The examining magistrate at the economic and financial judicial pole issued, on Wednesday, a Detention order against a businessman operating in the tourism sector and a high-ranking civil servant official, after their hearing, in the presence of their lawyers, Deputy Public

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Africa: COVID-19 Endangers Africa's Rural Economies As Conservation Efforts Come Under Strain

Emmanuel Fundira is the president of the Safari Operator's Association of Zimbabwe and has worked in the tourism, conservation, and safari industry for 25

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