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The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday Tobago Tobago Hotel and Tourism Association vice president Carol-Ann Birchwood-James wants to discuss plans for the sector with the new THA administration. - Photo by David Reid Tobago Hotel and Tourism Association (THTA) vice president Carol-Ann Birchwood-James is hoping the new Farley Augustine-led Tobago House of Assembly (THA) administration will meet with hoteliers and other businessmen early in the new year to discuss the future of island’s tourism sector. “Business is […]
South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
Duel between Covid-19 and oil prices continues
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By GEORGE WACHIRA
The Covid-19 is playing a major havoc on nearly all oil industry supply chain players.
Covid-19 prevalence, especially in high GDP nations like USA, China and European Union, has become a good calibrator of oil price movements.
Oil markets fear of virus resurgence and reduced oil demands has in the past few days seen a reversal of oil price recovery, which are now heading back to $40, and with indications that prices could drop further depending on how the virus resurges in the US.
There is a consensus among major oil players that a “return to normal” oil demand will take longer than previously anticipated, with the low oil demands and prices not expected to recover to pre-March levels until after 2021.
Right here in Kenya we witnessed a lower-tier independent oil explorer Tullow Oil declare a Covid-19 justified force majeure on its contractual obligations with the government
Oil producing countries heavily dependent on oil for national budgets are having to scale back their economic ambitions and public service levels, while some of them are digging deeply into their sovereign wealth funds
It is the economic performance of the two largest economies (USA and China) that determines how and when global oil demands and prices move.
The country has done a U-turn but revised entry requirements do apply.
Jamaican pilots lead AA’s return since the shut down
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Two American Airlines pilots who were born in Jamaica were responsible for steering the first flight of 126 passengers to the island on Monday as the island reopened its tourism sector, since the reopening fo the border.
The pilots, Captain Shaun Nelson of Montego Bay, and First Officer Bethoya Powell, from Tower Isle, safely landed a Boeing 737 aircraft on the tarmac of the Sangster International Airport with the aim of helping to restart the Jamaican economy.
The aircraft, which left Miami, Florida, at 11:30 a.m., arrived in the tourism capital city of Montego Bay at 12:40 p.m.
Powell, Nelson said, was responsible for the roster that brought them together on the same flight – in her role as pilot manager in Dallas, Texas.
Powell said that American Airlines has sought to maintain COVID-19 social-distancing protocols by keeping the middle seats empty.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- The Executive Board of the Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT), on Tuesday, called for more coordination between the various stakeholders to set in motion an economic reform plan and put in place new mechanisms that will be identified based on the requirements of the current stage to overcome this crisis.
Some airlines, like JetBlue , even require passengers to wear face coverings over their mouths and noses throughout check-in, boarding, in flight, and while deplaning, while others may only require that masks be worn on board.
“Some airlines, including Delta and Alaska, are limiting the number of people seated in first class, so that is basically 50 percent of the capacity,” said Henry Harteveldt, travel analyst and principal at Atmosphere Research.
While the experts agreed that there is likely to be more overall space, especially between passengers in first class, it’s likely not going to make much of a difference, unless you’re in a particularly secluded seat or suite, or the airline is limiting business or first-class capacity.
Andy Christie, global private jets director at Air Charter Service, a global charter brokerage service that helps connect travelers with private charter flights, says that taking a private charter flight can almost “completely minimize the risk of transmission,” simply by reducing the number of contact points and exposures.
Their flights operate out of private hangars and terminals, and planes have been reconfigured from 50 seats down to 30, giving passengers around 36 inches of seat pitch — or a similar seat experience to business class on a major domestic airline.
Social and environmental vulnerabilities facing the Eastern Caribbean
High unemployment and aging populations, with a concomitant prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), add to this region’s troubles.
While spending on health varies across the region (between three and seven percent of GDP), Eastern Caribbean health systems perform substantially below the global average, forcing this region on the back foot as it tackles this health crisis.
The COVID-19 pandemic has made it necessary for Caribbean countries to reassess their preparedness against a wider range of increasing risks – including health pandemics.
Accustomed to the impact of natural disasters, the Caribbean will not only need resilience against global warming but also against a new wave of health risks that threaten the lives and livelihoods of its citizens.
This is why the United Nations COVID-19 Multi-sectoral Response Plan and Funding Appeal for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean states was launched on the May 6 to support the region to tackle this crisis with resources it urgently needs.
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TOURISM MINISTER Edmund Bartlett said that Monday’s “soft reopening” of the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay was a silver lining for workers at that gateway after a near-three-month layoff.
Bartlett was addressing journalists at the airport where he, along with Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton, was on hand to witness the arrival of the first plane carrying tourists into the island since the country closed its borders on March 24 in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
“The prospects that 5,000 people working at this airport see their jobs coming back, I think, is the most satisfying of all and perhaps the greatest sense of hope that is provided,” the tourism minister said, while cautioning employees to adhere to health protocols.
More than 800 people have registered and booked on the JAMCOVID Visit Jamaica website, which offers disaggregated data on places of origin and other information.
Also on hand to witness the arrivals was Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) President Omar Robinson, who revealed that only a handful of hotels, namely Deja Hotel, Moon Palace, RIU Ocho Rios, Sandals Montego Bay and Beaches Negril, are reopening this week with the others slated for next month.
MINISTER of Tourism Edmund Bartlett says that the tourism sector, Jamaica's second-largest earner of foreign exchange, ended 2020 with an estimated loss of $76 billion because of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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There has been a sharp and alarming spike in the number of positive cases of the COVID-19 virus in Guyana over the last few weeks.
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The spike in COVID-19 cases in Barbados has thrown a dark cloud over the tourism sector’s anticipated bright winter season, with hotels already facing cancellations and more expected to come. Chairman of the Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) Geoffrey Roach conceded on Wednesday night that stakeholders were worried about the potential economic fallout and […]
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The Caribbean region is projected to grow this year despite the beating its tourism sector has taken this past year due to the pandemic.
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(CNN) — It was the good news that gave the world hope. On November 9
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[East African] Tourism authorities in Uganda are targeting about Ush12.2 billion ($3.3m) as return on investments from this year's Pearl of Africa Tourism Expo (POATE) slated for between April 23 and 25.
President Uhuru Kenyatta has announced plans to help businesses and Kenyans survive the economic storm caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The president said infrastructure spending is set to be ramped up so as to stimulate and support micro and small business enterprises.
The President also announced that the government will buy locally manufactured vehicles worth Sh600 million to promote local car assembly firms.
The government will hire 5,000 more healthcare workers with diploma and certificate education level for one year to enhance public health system, the President announced.
President Kenyatta vowed to provide the necessary support for healthcare workers in the fight against Covid-19 disease which has now claimed 50 lives in Kenya with 1,192 infections.
