The year 2020 has been a very challenging one in many ways, but even more so as it relates to my health. The stress of keeping the business going, without the usual hotel getaways, meeting various expenses with little or no income in some months, took its toll in the latter part of this year on my health, which resulted in hospitalisation and huge medical bills.

For 2021, my focus will be implementing lifestyle changes to ensure that good health is maintained and that ‘my health becomes my greatest wealth’.

I will also be examining health and wellness tourism and how we can assist in developing this area to become an area of focus for our nation. This will assist our economy in several ways, including increased financial returns in tourism and agriculture, as well as reduce our health expense. My hope for Jamaica is to have a healthier population; that we maximise the use of our natural resources – food, trees and plants – to heal our people; increase tourist arrivals via our healing and wellness packages; and for Jamaica to become the health, healing and wellness capital of the world.