Jamaica’s Tourism Minister calls for new Caribbean financial architecture while Afreximbank’s $5 billion CARICOM facility — ratified by Kingston only after years of delay — sits largely untapped for tourism development.

WASHINGTON, DC, Calvin G. Brown | April 5, 2026 - Jamaica’s Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett stood before the Inter-American Development Bank’s Board of Directors and declared, with the confidence of a man who has never doubted his own argument, that “the time has come for a regional financial institution dedicated to tourism in the Caribbean.