MINISTER OF Information Senator Burchell Whiteman says there has been no reported fallout in bookings within the local tourism industry, despite the recent unrest in Flankers, St. James.
Speaking during yesterday's post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House, Minister Whiteman said the Flankers incident, sparked by the police killings of two elderly men, "has not been a major issue in the British mainstream media, at least not yet.
"Having been in the United Kingdom last week, I can say that while news travels quickly, there did not seem to be a lot of attention in the British media to the occurrences in St. James last week," the Information Minster said. He was responding to queries about the British Government's inclusion of the St. James flare up in an updated travel advisory on its Foreign Office's web site.
But Minister Whiteman made sure to note that the Government takes "the whole matter seriously and will continue to take steps to try to mitigate the effects of what is clearly a sad and serious development in our history."
Just yesterday it was reported that Godfrey Dyer, the President of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourism Association had described as premature, the British Foreign Offices travel advisory on Jamaica in the wake of the recent unrest.
