TPDConnect TPDCONNECT SEPTEMBER 2017 | Page 6

A MESSAGE FROM HON. EDMUND BARTLETT In Jamaica and the wider Caribbean, tourism is everybody’s business and if not, it should be. As the largest source of foreign exchange earnings for most of the island economies, tourism is undoubtedly the region’s most important sector. This reality was brought sharply into focus by the recent catastrophic destruction wrought by Hurricanes Irma and Maria on many of our tourism dependent sister islands. The ripples effect