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(Jamaica Gleaner) Hotelier Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart has died.
Stewart was founder of Sandals Resorts, Beaches Resorts, and their parent company Sandals Resorts International, as well as The ATL Group and The Jamaica Observer.
The article Jamaican hotel mogul 'Butch' Stewart is dead at 79 appeared first on Stabroek News.
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Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced that there will be mandatory COVID screening for all passengers arriving in Jamaica this month.
The prime minister said nationals assessed at low-risk will be ordered to stay at home for 14 days, but not quarantined.
The Prime Minister has announced that business travellers who are spending 14 days or fewer in Jamaica will be tested.
According to the Prime Minister, tourists, registered on the Visit Jamaica platform who are staying at a hotel or resort, may be tested based on the findings during screening.
Prime Minister Andrew has announced the following countries as a being in a travel bubble.
LAPD Chief Michel Moore on The Passing of Larry Aubry
It is with great sadness that I heard the news of the passing of Mr. Larry Aubry.
Mr. Aubry and I have met on several occasions throughout my law enforcement career.
Since becoming LAPD’s Chief-nearly two years ago-Larry attended several community meetings and he would challenge many decisions and policies of the LAPD.
He wanted to ensure the decisions of law enforcement was fair to everyone-particularly to those within the African American communities.
Jamaican health authorities have sought to explain why the requested medical evacuation of a distressed pregnant woman aboard the Adventure of the Seas was not executed.
On Monday as the ship waited in Haitian waters for clearance to dock in Jamaica, the captain announced that there was a medical emergency and the ill crew member would be evacuated by helicopter.
The woman was eventually removed from the ship via an ambulance after the vessel docked in Falmouth around noon on Tuesday.
At a press conference on Wednesday, Chief Medical Officer Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie said the condition of the woman allowed for her to dock.
As the ship moved into port on Tuesday afternoon, the ambulance was seen arriving on the property to remove the ill ship worker.
Just how indifferent Caribbean Community (CARICOM) governments have been, over a protracted period in aggressively attending to issues that have a critical bearing on the food security issues which most of them have been facing for several years is reflected in the fact that a decade after the regional movement appeared to paying a high level of what turned out to be little more than lip service to crop insurance in its agricultural sector, one of their number appears to placing the issue on its domestic agricultural agenda again.
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FALMOUTH, Trelawny — Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says Prime Minister Andrew Holness is to give a timetable on Monday when other Jamaican ship workers are to be brought back home.
Speaking at a press conference at the Falmouth Cruise Ship Pier in Trelawny on Thursday, Dr Chang said a schedule is currently being worked on for the safe return of the crew members.
The prime minister will be able to announce the decision on all of them as we will be bringing the Jamaican on the ships home as early as possible,” Dr Chang assured.
And on Tuesday, as part of efforts by the Government to bring home Jamaican ship workers, 1,044 more of them arrived at the Falmouth Cruise Ship Pier on the Caribbean Cruise Line's Adventure of the Seas vessel.
On Thursday, Dr Chang argued that while the Government wants to bring home the workers, care must be taken not to overwhelm the island's health care system.
Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister, Kamina Johnson Smith, was on the defensive as the Opposition criticised the Government over its handling of the situation.
However, Johnson Smith said she would defer to Prime Minister Andrew Holness to answer some of the questions.
But Johnson Smith said the Opposition was making mischief.
“I do not wish for there to be room for misinformation and mischief because even as the Opposition is calling for unity in one breath, they are, through statement ... by Crawford in the guise of a question, creating mischief and causing for spreading of misinformation,” Johnson Smith hit back.
Johnson Smith insisted the administration had no knowledge of the ship’s intention to sail into Jamaican waters because the Government had still been in negotiations with Royal Caribbean.
A true Jamaican patriot, visionary leader, tourism mogul extraordinaire and the greatest marketer tourism has ever seen. That is how tourism giant 79-year-old Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, who passed on Monday in the United States, is remembered by...
