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• Secretary General of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), Dr. Taleb Rifai, says a resilience recovery centre will be established in the Caribbean.
• Dr. Rifai said that while the UNWTO may not be the best qualified agency to bring in physical and material aids for crisis-stricken countries, the entity will do its part in ensuring that “they do the more important work of making sure they act responsibly and intelligently in solving the problems and issues in a very logical way”.
• For his part, Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, said the resilience centre represents an institutional arrangement that will allow the Caribbean to track and assess global disruptions and will be more responsive to such events.