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  • #16
    RE: Is it just me

    What Peterkin is proposing about the passport is something that is already been done by some destinations in Mexico and the caribbean. How many people do you think will do this? Not many but it is something to show you care and attract a few more visitors.

    With the cricket Visa, not only the JHTA complaining but the rest of the caribbean. Can you tell me what this visa is all about? When people coming from USA, and others not coming to watch cricket do not need one. Let me ask if I come to Jamaica to visit and don't have a visa and go to a game, is that a crime? What if afterwards I feel to go to another island and watch another game?

    The people implementing the visa pretty much say they did a poor job and it is affecting other islands. JHTA is looking out for the pockets of its hotel owners and not really Jamaica's interest so that make the man an uncle TOM? Let us see how successful the world cup cricket will be.
    • Don't let negative things break you, instead let it be your strength, your reason for growth. Life is for living and I won't spend my life feeling cheated and downtrodden.

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    • #17
      RE: Is it just me

      It would seems a lot of people are just waiting for the ICC World Cup to fall flat on its face so thyey can score whatever milage they can out of it...tsk tsk tsk..

      As for the visa, it is for four months only, February 1 to May 1 and there is a very good reason for it too, there are many differentcountries in the Caribbean and each have their own visa/entry rules/restrictions...instead of visitoirs coming here for cricket having to get visas for every country, they willneed just one visa to get from place to place smoothly.

      It is very much like the Shenghen (Sp) visa that gives the holder access to several EU countries without having to go get three or four different visas.

      This was announced a long time ago, the same goes for customs, once you clear customs in one place you wont have to do so in another place again.

      Hope that help to clear up some misunderstanding
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      • #18
        RE: Is it just me

        Sickko as for the Visa it maybe well intended but the caribbean is a complex place and if we going to have a Visa for for months it will only complicate things. How do you explain people coming from the same country to visit and one need a visa and one don't? The fact is if an Austrailian show up without a visa and say he is visiting will he be denied? I personally think it was well intended but not properly implemented partially because of our selfishness when it comes to Caricom. The EU thing is not a temporary thing and that is where the confusion come it. If you go to one EU contry you can go to others but that is the norm. The fact is that we have two policies in place now and it may not be as big as JHTA making it but the fact is it can affect tourism.

        Some people may want this to fail and as usual some people are nervous and nothing is wrong with been nervous as some people riding huge investment. I hope this will force the caribbean to properly think through policies and think whether or not they want a single market instead of talking and dragging their feet forever.
        • Don't let negative things break you, instead let it be your strength, your reason for growth. Life is for living and I won't spend my life feeling cheated and downtrodden.

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        • #19
          RE: Is it just me

          My understanding is the The CARICOM visa is for those coming for cricket...how does thisaffect persons coming to Negril for sex and weed, I have no clue as it shouldnt...
          Solidarity is not a matter of well wishing, but is sharing the very same fate whether in victory or in death.
          Che Guevara.

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          • #20
            RE: Is it just me

            To you as a Jamaican it may seems like no problem. To someone in Austrialia, India, Pakistan etc.and people in the tourism industry who don't have the proper understanding it can be confusing.
            • Don't let negative things break you, instead let it be your strength, your reason for growth. Life is for living and I won't spend my life feeling cheated and downtrodden.

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