NAME OF FEATURE | THE GLEANER | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2024 20 EDMUND BARTLETT FEATURE Published July 8, 1983 THE HON Edmund Bartlett, minister of state for culture, has said there is need for greater vocational flexibility in the training of those with impaired hearing, stressing that trends in future planning should respond to this need. He said that an improvement in the educational provisions was necessary as educational requirements for employment were rapidly increasing. This, he stated, minimised the prospects of individuals with an impairment who were functionally literate. Bartlett was speaking at the opening of an art and craft exhibition, ‘Expo 83’, mounted by the Jamaica Association for the Deaf as the Mutual Life Centre, Oxford Road on Wednesday, June 29. Pointing to the need for the retraining of those who were already employed to ensure that they would retain their jobs, Bartlett said, “with the advancement of global technology, it is imperative that bold inventions and programmes for the hearing impaired be structured to enable them to be absorbed into the society”, the JIS release stated. He said he was challenging the “bravest and best minds to produce the concepts, research, educational and social change that will benefit the disabled”. Bartlett added that it was incumbent on all to recognise that a deficit in one area did not incapacitate one in functioning meaningfully. The display, he pointed out attested to this and was “tangible proof of the capacities of the disabled”. He said the slogan, ‘The Disabled is Able’, was not rhetoric. The Association through the exhibition had demonstrated to the public that although many deaf persons were forced to be employed manually due to their limitation in other skills, they too could produce at the standard of their hearing peers. Bartlett challenged the association to seriously consider its interests and to develop innovative techniques appropriate for the hearing impaired. Need for greater vocational flexibility – Bartlett Published February 17, 1997 SENATOR EDMUND Bartlett, Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) spokesman on tourism and the environment, has called for greater diversification of the economy of the city of Montego Bay. He made the call in an address to the Montego Bay Chamber of Commerce last Thursday in the chamber’s boardroom at the Mutual Life building in Montego Bay. Senator Bartlett, who is also the JLP’s caretaker for East Central St James, said the country and city are approaching the 21st century which would present constraints to be overridden, opportunities to be grasped “and challenges to which we would have to rise”. He expressed approval of certain aspects of the Greater Montego Bay Development Order although he said he had not been presented with a copy of the order. One of the important considerations in the redevelopment, said Senator Bartlett, would be how traffic could be diverted from the Gloucester Avenue area to make it safe for pedestrians. According to him, Montego Bay’s economy has to be restructured to have it stand on four pillars instead of the two on which it now rests – tourism and commerce. The tourist industry first of all, he said, can be strengthened by the development of new attractions and the expansion of hotel capacity. The commercial activity of the airports, seaports and the regular trading activity could also be boosted and this area would benefit from the expansion of tourism as well. The city has not yet realised its potential for light industrial development and there is idle capacity in the free zone, the digiport and the garment industry. This, said Senator Bartlett, would be the third pillar of the economy. The fourth pillar, said the JLP senator, would be human resource development centred around secondary and tertiary education and vocational training in construction, maintenance and resort skills. Tourism Minister Bartlett outlines vision for Montego Bay Quenching their thirst in true Jamaican style, Prime Minister Andrew Holness (centre), Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett (right) and tourism ambassador, Adam Stewart, executive chairman of Sandals Resorts International take both men on a tour of ‘Jamaica Love’ at the Montego Bay Convention Centre this morning. Some 1,000 stakeholders, including 400 international travel advisors and media have converged at the Montego Bay Convention Centre for the historic occasion which is a first for Jamaica. The event was held on Wednesday, October 16, 2024. ASHLEY ANGUIN/PHOTOGRAPHER Published October 6, 2009 Janet Silvera/Senior Gleaner Writer WESTERN BUREAU: JAMAICA’S TOURISM minister, Edmund Bartlett, has been elected to the executive council of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), the leading international organisation in the field of tourism. The UNWTO serves as a global forum for tourism policy issues and a practical source of tourism know-how. The group also plays a central and decisive role in promoting the development of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism, paying particular attention to the interests of developing countries. Speaking to The Gleaner from Astana, Kazakhstan (near Russia), where he is attending the UNWTO general assembly, which began yesterday and continues until Thursday, Bartlett said Jamaica’s appointment means the country will be a party to all critical planning and programme implementation “and will have a Bartlett elected to UN tourism group PLEASE SEE UN, 22
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