Jamaica issued a state of emergency on Nov. 15 and reissued the declaration on Dec. 6.
Jamaica’s state of emergency may threaten its tourism industry as crime continues to increase in the country and local authorities struggle to clamp down on it.
“Local police lack the resources to respond effectively to serious criminal incidents,” the advisory stated. “Emergency services vary throughout the island, and response times may vary from U.S. standards. The homicide rate reported by the Government of Jamaica has for several years been among the highest in the Western Hemisphere.”Jamaica appeared to acknowledge the severity of its problem by declaring a state of emergency on Nov.
Tourism provides Jamaica its main source of income, accounting for as much as 29% of the country’s GDP in 2019 according to Statista, and tied with remittances . Jamaica welcomed more than 1.5 million tourists in 2021 who spent more than $2.095 billion, according to the Caribbean Tourism Organization.
“In years past, the State Department, depending on the political situation, was sometimes reluctant to even issue a warning,” Katz told Fox News Digital, explaining that an advisory alone can hurt the economy and is “not generally well received by the subject of the advisory.” “I ask people all the time: Where are you going to go to? Do they have a professional fire department? What are the traffic laws? What are the statistics for fatal traffic accidents?” Katz said, adding that “statistically, the greatest number of Americans who are either seriously injured or killed overseas [is] as a result of traffic accidents.”
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