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JAMAICA’S tourism needs another stimulus package

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KINGSTON -JAMAICA’S tourism industry urgently needs another stimulus package from the Government to recover from the battering it has taken in the stand-off between gunmen and the security forces in Tivoli Gardens, West Kingston. “We are looking down the barrel of a crisis,” warned president of the Jamaica Hotel Tourist Association (JHTA), Wayne Cummings Monday.Here Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association President Wayne Cummings addresses Observer editors and reporters at  Monday Exchange at the newspaper’s Beechwood Avenue headquarters in Kingston. With him are vice presidents Nicola Madden-Greig (centre) and Jamaica Observer

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