Edmund Bartlett, A day late and a dollar short
Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism Was A Last Minute No Show At His Own Reception (But His Staff Knew He Never Made The Plane) By Stephen Weir It wasn’t a good sign. An hour late, no one was at the Jamaica Canadian Association Hall microphone and reporters waiting to meet Jamaica’s Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, received another round of free drinks. A few minutes later, members of the minister’s advance team took to the podium to say that the Minister was tied up at the Pearson airport and was expected to speak at 8pm – an hour and half after he was suppose to. It was a planned reception that Bartlett had invited prominent Canadian Jamaicans, travel experts and the media to attend in North Toronto. He wanted to brief Canada on the bullish state of tourism in Jamaica. When the Reception finally started it was announced that the Minister would not be appearing and apparently he never had intended to show up at all! A video made the day bef...