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Carnival Is an Economic Engine, Says Minister Bartlett

By: Ainsworth Morris KINGSTON, Jamaica, (JIS) – Tourism minister, Edmund Bartlett, has hailed Carnival in Jamaica as an economic engine generating billions of dollars for the economy, per research from the University of the West Indies (UWI) indicated that last year’s staging generated J$165.7 billion, up from J$111.7 billion in 2024, representing an increase of nearly 48 percent in a single year. With a projected 10 percent more to be earned in…
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Jamaica Information Service broke the news in on Tuesday, March 17, 2026.
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