Negril Resort Board Blasts Authorities For Jet Ski Inaction
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2.../western1.html
This article is speaking on the inaction of the Ministries of Tourism, National Security, and the Maritime Authority of Jamaica on the Jet Ski situation in Negril. Mind you, the Minister of Tourism of Jamaica, Kenneth Wykeham McNeill, MD, MP (with his full government portfolio being Tourism and Entertainment) is also the Member of Parliament for Western Westmoreland, Jamaica which is part of Negril.
As a Medical Doctor he should be able to understand the grave situation in Negril with the lack of emergency services in the immediate area. Members of Parliament don't have to live in their continuances, most if not all live in Kingston. http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2.../letters1.html
According to this article neither he or the person in charge of the Maritime Authority were present at the monthly meeting of the Negril Resort Board. I wonder if Dr. McNeill has been to Negril since the last two tragedy's that occurred?
If anyone wants to contact Kenneth Wykeham McNeill, MD, MP and tell him how you really feel, here are some of his contacts: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/WykehamMcNeill or on the government of Jamaica website http://www.mot.gov.jm/contact/Contac...20of%20Tourism
e-mail: wykeham.mcneill@mot.gov.jm
For me, the real star in Negril is the co-owner of the Travellers Beach Resort, Winthrope Wellington; he breath of fresh air, as he speaks the truth on what is really going on in Negril. He is a very courageous man, especially in a culture where everyone minds there own business or people don't chat too much. He is putting his money where his mouth is and choosing people over money. If more people were like him things would change quickly. While he courageously speaks the truth, others cower in fear and live in a state of inaction for the love of money or because of the mind your own business culture. If I ever go back to Negril I will definitely look for this man to shake his hand and see what I can do to help in his many charitable causes.
After reading this I will put my money where my mouth is and will be donating to his cause, the Negril International Hospital http://www.negrilinternationalwellnessfoundation.org/
"But it was co-owner of the Travellers Beach Resort, Winthrope Wellington, who captured the attention of the members when he recounted the traumatic effects the accident has had on the family of the deceased, and, by extension, his establishment and the resort town.
"I want to make two very strong points on the issue. Everyone knows we have been dealing with this issue for years and years and years," Wellington lamented.
LEADERSHIP GAP
"I think there is a serious gap in the leadership in terms of them understanding what our day-to-day issues are. To them, it's just an unfortunate situation [in which] a tourist has died. But they are not the ones on the beach when there are hundreds of tourists witnessing a man with a gash in his head, from his forehead all the way to the back, and is lying there lifeless; watching people there do CPR for 45 minutes, and his wife is sitting there crying her eyes out, hoping that her husband is going to live.
"And on top of that, they are not the ones dealing with the family … . This man had five kids. They are not the ones that have to go there to the autopsy, take them to the airport, and do all the things that a family needs in times of crisis. And we are the ones at the hotel that have to deal with it on the ground, and that gap needs to be closed. I am sure they appreciate now the ripple effect that the death of a tourist has," he added.
He said the situation was compounded by the fact that the ambulance assigned to the Negril Fire Department was unavailable at the time of the incident.
"People are now questioning the safety of Negril. Everybody who was there knows that no ambulance came. We put this guy in the back of a flatbed; everybody saw that. They are going back to their tour reps and will be reporting that there is no hospital. We fought two and a half years to get this ambulance, and when it was needed, it just wasn't there," he said.
"We are not here to deal with trauma. We are here to deal with guests and hospitality and make sure people come on vacation and enjoy themselves, not to deal with death and despair … and they are putting us in a position where we have to deal with this on a regular basis," Wellington said."
Originally Posted by finestyle
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