Njengoba kunerekhodi eliqopha umlando labahambi abayizigidi ezi-4.31 abavakashela e-Jamaica ngo-2018, imboni yezokuvakasha yalesi siqhingi isilungele ukukhulisa izinga lokukhula ngokwandisa ukutshalwa kwezimali emabhizinisini amancane naphakathi nendawo (ama-SMTE), kusho uNgqongqoshe Wezokuvakasha wase-Jamaica, uMhlonishwa. Edmund Bartlett, CD, MP.
Okuncane. U-Bartlett ukhulume namuhla “Engqungqutheleni Yesibili Yomhlaba Wonke Emayelana Nemisebenzi Nokukhula Okuhlanganisiwe: Amabhizinisi Amancane Naphakathi Ezokuvakasha,” eyethulwa ngokuhlanganyela yiNhlangano Yezizwe Ezihlangene Yezokuvakasha (UNWTO) futhi Umnyango Wezokuvakasha wase-Jamaica.
Ngaphezu kwamaphesenti angama-80 ezokuvakasha ziqhutshwa amabhizinisi amancane naphakathi nendawo eJamaica.
“Ukukhulisa ukutshalwa kwezimali emnothweni kazwelonke kanye nezakhamuzi zakhona kuzoholela ekutheni kube nezinsiza ezinkulu zokuhlinzeka ngolwazi oluthuthukisiwe lwezivakashi,” kusho uMin. Bartlett. “Lapha e-Jamaica, kungenxa yamasu anhlobonhlobo afana nezemfundo, ukuqeqeshwa okukhethekile, kanye nokuxhaswa ngezimali ngezikweletu okusenza sikwazi ukwenza kahle imboni yezokuvakasha yase-Jamaica, ukuze izakhamuzi zethu eziningi zilingane nabasebenza kwezokuvakasha emhlabeni wonke.”
Amalungu e-SMTE angaphezu kuka-200 ahlangane e-Montego Bay Convention Centre, e-Montego Bay, e-Jamaica, ukuze abambe iqhaza ezingxoxweni eziholwa uhla oluhlaba umxhwele lwezikhulumi zasekhaya nezamazwe ngamazwe kanye nabaphaneli ababehlanganisa: Ungqongqoshe Wezimboni wase-Jamaica u-Audley Shaw, CD, MP; Jaime Cabal, iPhini likaNobhala-Jikelele, UNWTO; Nestor Mendez, Umsizi KaNobhala Jikelele Wenhlangano Yamazwe AseMelika; kanye namazwi aqavile ka-Álvaro Uribe Vélez, owayenguMongameli wase-Colombia.
“Umkhakha wamabhizinisi amancane namaphakathi unikela kakhulu kwezokuvakasha e-Jamaica, nokho amaphesenti angama-20 kuphela emali engenayo ye-SMTE ebuyela enzuzweni yawo,” kwengeza uMn. Bartlett. "Namuhla, siyifake kabusha inkhulumomphendvulwano yokuthi singalinganisa kanjani kabusha lokho okudidayo kanye nokubuyisa imibono emihle ngemali yokutshalwa kwezimali." Uthe amasu akhona okuvumela ama-SMTEs ukuthi aqonde amandla awo, ngaleyo ndlela asuke ku-opharetha “umama-no-pop” aye emithonjeni emisiwe, ethembekile yemali engenayo eqhubekayo neyesikhathi eside.
Muva nje, uMnyango Wezokuvakasha uqondise cishe i-J$1Billion ku- I-Export–Import Bank yase-United States ngokuboleka ngesilinganiso samaphesenti amane nesigamu kuma-SMTE ase-Jamaica, okukhiqize ukusabela okumangazayo kubanikazi bamabhizinisi amancane bendawo. “Kuze kube manje sekubolekwe ama-J$950 million ezinkampanini ezingaphezu kuka-70 futhi nawo akhokha ngenzalo. Ngo-Ephreli, i-J$132 million yenzalo izobe isibuyile,” Min. Kusho uBartlett.
Ngaphezu kwalokho, lo Inhlangano Yamazwe aseMelika (OAS) izibophezele isamba esingu-US$500,000 ukwakha ukuqina kwama-SMTE ezinhlekeleleni zemvelo kanye nokuphazamiseka kwezokuvakasha. Lo msebenzi, owenziwa phakathi neminyaka emibili, uxhaswe uMnyango Wezwe Lase-United States futhi uphethwe i-OAS Secretariat for Integral Development.
