edmund bartlett, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, stephen. it's my honour and pleasure to share this 25 minutes or so with you. thank you. we're delighted you're here. let's start with your specific responsibility, your portfolio — tourism in jamaica. do you think it is healthy forjamaica to be an economy that right now is so heavily dependent on tourism? well, tourism's role in economic development and economic building is very pervasive and sometimes misunderstood because tourism is not a single economic activity. it's a confluence of many economic paths, all of which have an economic outcome of its own. so that tourism doesn't happen unless agriculture is flourishing and doing well, it doesn't happen unless manufacturing is flourishing and doing well, it doesn't happen unless energy supplies are available and medical supplies are available and a range of services. it doesn't happen unless entertainment is available and attractions are available. so i could go on and on. i get your point. i mean, clearly, it is a part of a much bigger econo

my guest is veteran tourism minister edmund bartlett. why hasn�*t jamaica fixed its internal strife?