Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, has expressed his deepest gratitude and appreciation to local tourism partners for their active role in the sector’s emergency planning and response efforts during the period when Hurricane Matthew posed a threat to Jamaica.
Mahalo mau ʻo Kuhina Bartlett no ka mālama ʻana i ka moku i ka ʻeha o Matthew, ʻaʻole i pae i ka ʻāina i Jamaica, akā ua hala i waho o ka mokupuni. Ua koho ʻo ia i ka Ministry's Tourism Emergency Operations Center (TEOC), nāna i hāʻawi i ka ʻike koʻikoʻi a me ka manawa kūpono i ka poʻe kuleana mākaʻikaʻi a puni ka uaki.
I ka hoʻomaka ʻana o Jamaica no ka hopena o ka Hurricane Matthew, ua hoʻāla ke Kuhina i ka TEOC ma ka Jamaica Pegasus Hotel ma Kingston e hoʻonohonoho i nā lawelawe pilikia no ka ʻoihana mākaʻikaʻi kūloko. Ua mālama pū nā hui mākaʻikaʻi a puni ka mokupuni i nā hana e mālama ai i ke ola a me ka waiwai.
"Mahalo nui wau i nā limahana a me nā mea manawaleʻa i hāʻawi i nā hola he nui o ko lākou manawa e hōʻoia i ka mālama ʻia ʻana o ka ʻoihana a me kā mākou poʻe malihini kipa e pili ana i ka ʻōnaehana o ka wā e hiki mai ana. Hāʻawi ko lākou kākoʻo i mea hōʻoiaʻiʻo nui i ke kaiāulu mākaʻikaʻi. Makemake nō hoʻi au e hoʻomaikaʻi aku i kā mākou mau hoa mākaʻikaʻi no ka hana koʻikoʻi a lākou i hana ai me ka hoʻokele a me nā limahana o ka Jamaica Pegasus no ka hoʻokipa ʻana i kā mākou Tourism Emergency Operations Center, "wahi a Kuhina Bartlett.
"Ua loaʻa iā mākou kahi mea i kūkulu maikaʻiʻia i ka mea i hoʻomākaukauʻia a me ka hoʻokele hoʻokele waiwai e hiki ke mālama i kēia mau mea hoʻoweliweli. ʻOluʻolu loa wau i kahi pōʻinoʻole i ka lole o ka Halepule o ka mokupuni a me kā mākou huakaʻi heleʻana e like me kā mākou huakaʻi. Hōʻikeʻo ia i ka "Jamaica e wehe no kaʻoihana a hoʻoikaika wau i nā poʻe e kipa aku i ko mākou mokupuni a me ka hoʻomanaʻoʻana i kahi o ka jilaca hiki ke hāʻawi wale i ka jamaica."
ʻOiai e mahalo ana i ka mālama ʻia ʻana o Jamaica mai ka Hurricane Matthew, ua koi ʻo Kuhina Bartlett i ka poʻe Jamaica e mālama i ka poʻe o Haiti, Cuba a me nā ʻāina ʻē aʻe i hoʻopilikia ʻia e Matthew i kā lākou pule.
