by LTC Writer | Jan 24, 2023 | Pulse
Spanish hoteliers operating in Jamaica have committed to constructing at least 2,000 new residential units for local hotel workers and their immediate families. The commitment was given during a recent breakfast meeting with Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett and...
by LTC Writer | Mar 31, 2022 | People, Pulse
ON the last day of March, the month when women are celebrated around the globe, LetsTravelCaribbean.com brings you the stories of phenomenal women who are blazing a trail in the tourism industry. Among them: Jennifer Griffith Jennifer Griffith — permanent secretary in...
by Charmaine Clarke | Mar 31, 2022 | People
AS she looks towards retiring “very soon”, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Jennifer Griffith, is satisfied that she will leave the industry a lot better than she found it 25 years ago. In fact, when she took the role of tourism planner in 1997 the...
by LTC Writer | Jan 13, 2022 | Pulse
Under the Tourism Workers Pension Scheme (TWPS) launched on January 12, tourism sector workers now 59 and over will get the full $200,000 a year pension pay-out when they retire at age 65. The shortfall in their contributions, created as the fund is newly launched,...
by LTC Writer | Dec 10, 2021 | Pulse
Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, says despite being delayed by the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, the pension scheme for tourism workers will be introduced on January 1, 2022. Bartlett, who was speaking at the official opening of the 444-suite...
