For the last 10 months, Noel Harrison’s tour bus has sat mostly idle. The pandemic put a stop to the vacations that used to keep him busy shuttling tourists around the sun-soaked resort town of Montego Bay.
In the last few months, he was hoping Jamaica had turned a corner. Hotels were reopening and tourists were starting to trickle back. But then came another blow in a year filled with adversity: Canada cancelled all flights to the Caribbean.
“That was a shocker to us, because we get a lot of business from Canada,” said the 54-year old Harrison who has worked in tourism for almost 20 years. “That was a big blow to us. We just don’t know when a disaster will strike.”
The decision to cancel all flights to the Caribbean until April 30,