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  • good afternoon I am Andrea Chisholm where the midday news a special welcome

  • if you're watching on one spot mediacom the tourism ministry is focusing on

  • minimizing the impact of ovid 19 coronavirus on the industry portfolio

  • minister edmond Bartlett is gearing up for a meeting in Germany to discuss a

  • global response to the deadly virus details in this report

  • tourism Edmond Bartlet if the period of The Cove in 1900 break is protracted its

  • impact on tourism could be devastating on Thursday while speaking on radio

  • Jamaica's beyond the headlines mr. Bartlett said there is anxiety within

  • the Cruz community not only that but he also admitted that the virus is already

  • impacting the ministry's projections for this year

  • therefore the tourism ministry is now focusing on minimizing the impact of a

  • potential outbreak the fact is for the year so far we still

  • growing I'll be at a lower rate than we had projected but we still going where

  • we know we're about 2.7 percent over last year as we are know but you know my

  • projections are five by five by Senate right so we still want to maintain sy

  • back as I said and I'm Noah 2.7 and that is a little concerning yes and I don't

  • think that we're going to do very much beyond that given the current mr.

  • Bartlett said a protocol for the prevention of the spread of the deadly

  • virus within the tourism industry is to be implemented in a few days mr.

  • Bartlett said it's important that global tourism players do not go into panic

  • mode sit down to map out the protocols

  • entities regime that has to know go into play you know public education

  • activities posters all over the place taking hygienic practices must wash your

  • hands before and after you know sanitize avoid contact we need employment to hold

  • protocols you know be developed to be rolled out he will attend a meeting next

  • week in Germany to discuss a global response to the call with 19 we're

  • talking focusing on I want to see the approaches we can take on a broad global

  • global protocols so that we can understand what kind of socialist funny

  • gender can be tolerable and accepted so that travel and prints more TVJ news in

  • the meantime Barbados has joined several other CARICOM countries in advising

  • nationals against travel to China and South Korea unless absolutely necessary

  • the ministry of health and wellness said the decision to extend the advisory is

  • based on information provided by the World Health Organization and the

  • us-based Center for Disease Control and Prevention national security minister

  • dr. Horace Chang is supporting the Jamaica constable Air Force and how

  • crime is handled this follows results of the rgr Gleaner Don Anderson poll which

  • gave the jcf a failing grade it showed that six out of every ten

  • Jamaicans or 61% said the police force was not effective in leading the fight

  • against crime three out of ten Jamaicans or 30%

  • disagreed 9% either did not know or were not sure suggests that they may be they

  • sing you know you know a entity fighting crime and this or no this doesn't

  • address the issue at all respondents to the survey believe the Jamaica Defence

  • Force should play a more active role in crime-fighting this was dr. Chang's

  • response I've been under order spread across every district in Ireland

  • and yet they have come under significant pressure and oftentimes one bad egg

  • becomes the face of the police and in addition to that you find because they

  • are the ones on the front line the other ones were usually attacks on issues of

  • you know inappropriate response charges of corruption and these issues that

  • become almost living begin to make the image of the police the private sector

  • organization president is surprised that most Jamaicans object to some forms of

  • some forms of privatization of government assets in the rgr Gleaner Don

  • Anderson poll seventy six percent of respondents believed the government

  • should not sell its stake in the Jamaica Public Service Company and transgenic

  • on-highway former PSO J president Howard Mitchell reacted to the finding secure

  • that it is distrust that they feel that by privatization the ownership of the

  • government entities would necessarily go in to a few private hands but my

  • understanding and maybe that understanding has not been communicated

  • well to the public is that the management of the issue would be such

  • that the ownership would be abroad this public ownership so I am a little

  • surprised at the reaction what I feel that perhaps it is it arises from

  • ignorant as to the real process by which privatization is going to occur the poll

  • also showed that 52% of Jamaicans agree with the listing state-owned companies

  • on the Jamaica stock exchange mr. Mitchell says there is a role for

  • the government the stock exchange and the private sector claim to make our

  • citizens help our citizens to be more financially aware could be aware of the

  • benefit of the public market the benefits of

  • ownership which is ownership and management which is motivated by profits

  • and prudent governance and I think that process needs to be accelerated 1038

  • persons were surveyed for the are Jelena Don Anderson poll it was done between

  • February 8th and February 18 and has a margin of error of a plus or minus 3% a

  • student of William nihai in Trelawny is believed to have drowned yesterday at a

  • river in Sherwood as his body was found moments ago he has been identified as a

  • 16 year old Jonathan Eccleston it's understood that Jonathan and seven

  • others went fishing when he slipped on a log and fell in the water

  • on Tuesday the body of eight year old Kimora white was found in Dover Saint

  • Mary after she was washed away while crossing a river on her way home and

  • it's time for a break here on the midday news but stay with us we have more

  • stories right after these messages

  • welcome back and we're continuing the news the independent candidate concept

  • contesting the southeast Clarendon by-election is adamant his return to

  • politics as an independent is the better the lives of a residence Derrick Lambert

  • dismissed suggestions that he's aiming to use the by-election to reestablish

  • ties with the PNP leadership and supporters despite losing by just over

  • 100 votes in 2011 mr. Lambert was overlooked as the p-n

  • peace candidate in the 2016 general election I have no interest in politics

  • apart from going in Parliament only atom by message so that's what get DeLong are

  • at least minore say it isn't point forget it

  • after that my business ago that works the tutorial

  • Kodama interests now my business trigger on which I see em diverse interests

  • including medical marijuana Dennison so I forgot oh where the PMPA was say the

  • win and you're calm and so on that is a relevant right now I mean other

  • interests but no future politics what I've been doing all my life is dealing

  • with the people with a meal without the candidate are not our caretaker we never

  • stop do latinum a life in news overseas the rapid rise in cases of kobe 19

  • coronavirus raised fares of a pandemic with the six countries with travel

  • history to Italy reporting their first cases they are Nigeria Estonia Denmark

  • Netherlands Lithuania and Mexico in Japan a British man who was infected on

  • the Diamond Princess cruise ship has died bringing the death toll among a

  • death toll among people who were aboard the vessel to six for the first time in

  • decades Iran can set fried a purse to limit the spread of the virus meanwhile

  • stock markets around the world are experiencing major declines amid invest

  • Affairs and in sports the potential imposition of a travel ban from Jamaica

  • to Japan may further jeopardize the country's participation at this semester

  • your Olympics organisers are uncertain if the games will go ahead as planned

  • Japan has come under the microscope after the Health Ministry yesterday

  • announced it would be restricting travel to Italy South Korea Singapore and Iran

  • due to a rise in corporate 19 cases for president of the Jamaica Athletics

  • administrative Association dr. Warren Blake the advice of the World Health

  • Organization would be key in coming to a decision the World Organization saying

  • that they are not the ones to cancel a knee in a sporting event but rather the

  • organisers but I'm certain that there have been close discussions with the

  • organizers the IOC and making recommendations as to what it is see dr.

  • maté said the j-3 is would suffer financially if the olympics are canceled

  • as it acts as one of their major bargaining tools for sponsorship it

  • would have affect us financially as well because I didn't wanted the thing that

  • our gear sponsor looks forward to is to get from returned at the Olympic Games

  • in terms of brand visibility and everything and this is all I know a

  • performance at these games without taking Damien's work home when we look

  • at bonuses that we mirror and you know only the fact sponsorship because that

  • contract levels not have an Olympic Games at a time when where we are

  • thinking that Jamaica should do fairly well will make it difficult for us the

  • argue for an increase in in sponsorship levels and that's the midday news I'm

  • Andrea Chisholm join us at 7:00 for the prime time news package on behalf of the

  • news sports and production teams with afternoon and have a great weekend

good afternoon I am Andrea Chisholm where the midday news a special welcome

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