§ 25. Captain Sir Peter Macdonaldasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether, in view of the need for restoring the tourist trade to the island of Jamaica, 1853 he will consider making arrangements to abolish the wartime regulations compelling visitors to Jamaica to produce pass ports, as has been done in Bermuda and the Bahamas.
Mr. Creech JonesIt is not considered advisable in present circumstances that passport requirements should be entirely abolished, but I am glad to say that it has recently been found possible consider ably to relax the regulations regarding visas. United States citizens, who constitute the majority of the visitors, are not now required to obtain visas for visits of less than six months duration, and persons in transit and passengers on tourist vessels may also visit the island without visas. These relaxations extend also to the other West Indian Colonies, and I hope that they will have a beneficial effect on the tourist trade of these Colonies