NAME OF FEATURE | THE GLEANER | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2024 2 EDMUND BARTLETT FEATURE TOURISM MINISTER Edmund Bartlett, who has copped numerous local and international awards for a variety of outstanding achievements during his over four decades of public service, has described receiving the Order of Jamaica (OJ) as his most special accolade. Bartlett and Security Minister Dr Horace Chang are among 150 Jamaicans who were announced as recipients of national honours for 2024 and recognised during a ceremony on National Heroes Day, celebrated October 21, this year. Bartlett was honoured for his contribution to the field of tourism, promoting human resource sustainability and climate resilience and for 40 years in the public service. “This is the single most important recognition in my life, don’t matter whatever happens anywhere else in the world,” Bartlett stated. Among his long list of honours for sterling contribution to the tourism sector, he was named Caribbean Tourism Minister of the Year at the Caribbean Travel Awards in 2017 and Pacific Area Travel Writers Association’s (PATWA) Tourism Minister of the Year for Sustainable Tourism, the following year. But he admitted that during his high school days, he didn’t dream he would have carved out such an illustrious career in the sector. In fact, he ‘THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT RECOGNITION IN MY LIFE’ Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett considers the Order of Jamaica his most special accolade Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett poses with Order of Jamaica recipients, Ambassador Audrey Marks and Lyttleton Shirley (right), as well as Prime Minister Andrew Holness at a special luncheon for celebrants at The Jamaica Pegasus in St Andrew on National Heroes Day. PHOTO BY LENOX QUALLO Dancehall artiste Moses ‘Beenie Man’ Davis and his fiancée Camille Lee share lens time with Minister Edmund Bartlett and his wife Carmen. This is the single most important recognition in my life, don’t matter whatever happens anywhere else in the world
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