KINGSTON, Jamaica—Opposition Spokesperson on Tourism and Linkages, Andrea Purkiss, has charged that local ground transport operators are being shut out of the tourism sector Purkiss spoke to the issue on June 9 during her contribution to the Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives. She highlighted that the Jamaica Union of Travellers Association (JUTA) was created by former Minister of Tourism Francis Tulloch with one explicit mission: “Jamaican hands drive Jamaica's visitors and with one explicit mission that it should be one avenue of Jamaican ownership”. Purkiss said that JUTA, along with the Jamaica Co-operative Automobile & Limousine Tours Limited (JCAL) and MAXI Tours represent generations of Jamaican families who built their livelihoods on tourism transportation.