Just a mere two months after reviving the Miami to Kingston Route Air Jamaica has decided to stop all flights by early February. Reason given is that the route is unprofitable. Air Jamaica is now a subsidiary of Caribbean Airlines after the Jamaica Government sold the majority of shares in the airline to Trinidad owned CAL.
THE Cayman Islands is to relax its visa requirements for Jamaicans travelling to the British territory in January. The announcement was made Friday by Premier McKeeva Bush at the inaugural Northern Caribbean Conference on Economic Co-operation, hosted by Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS) in the tiny island. “Visa exemptions will be put in place for Jamaican Nationals who hold validated US, UK or Canadian visas,” Bush said in his opening remark Click Here For More
Cleaning the Beaches
My hat goes off to the people who volunteer and to Diana McCauley chief executive from Jamaica Environment Trust who organized and mobilized to clean the beaches of Port Royal-Palisadoes in observation of International coastal Clean-up Day. It is full time for someone to recognize that what we have in Jamaica is of great value which needs to be protected. Many of us don’t realized and therefore we don’t appreciate what we have. Many people who travel Read the rest of this entry
Beautiful Island of Jamaica
The new government of Trinidad and Tobago is said to be reviewing the new Air Jamaica buy out deal. Trinidad owned Caribbean Airlines had just entered into an agreement to purchase Air Jamaica. Many Jamaicans are not happy with the deal and believe the government should have sold the airline to a Jamaican entity. Jamaica minister of Finance Audley Shaw claimed that the deal is solid and can withstand the scrutiny.
MORE BAD NEWS ON AIR JAMAICA. With just 2 days to go before the handing over of Air Jamaica to Caribbean Airlines the Air Jamaica employees are on strike. Reports are that over 1600 workers are to be made redundant on sale day Friday April 30. National Workers Union VP Granville Valentine announces that all categories of workers will be on strike, from ramp attendants to pilots. The government is supposed to give details on the sale of Air J today.
Bye, bye love Bird
The Jamaica Cabinet has given approval for the divestment of Air Jamaica to Caribbean Airlines effective Friday (April 30). Air Jamaica profitable routes will be sold out to Trinidad owned Caribbean Airlines. Many Jamaicans are still unhappy with the sale and still believe that the government has not done enough to try to keep the airline. We are hoping that Air Jamaica will still fly with all the amenities offered by the previous ‘Love Bird.’
Words out that Bounty Killer, Beenie Man, Mavado, Ricky Trooper, Adonia US visas have been cancelled. We still do not know the reasons for the cancellations but there is unrest between the US government and the Jamaican government regarding the Christopher ‘Dudus’ coke issue.
Jamaicans in New York plan to protest the sale of Air Jamaica to foreign interest. The demonstration will take place at the Jamaican Consulate 767 Third Ave, New York, New York on Thursday March 18 2010 from 5 pm to 7pm. for more information call:
For Information call:
Jose Richard 718 712 5034
Moses Henriques 718 485 9199
Neville Henry 347 330 8815
Patrick Beckford 732 801 6747
According to an article in the Jamaica Observer, Tourism Minister, Ed Bartlett, told the media in Berlin Germany that he is feeling the ‘pain’ of the Air Jamaica Demise and its pending sale to Caribbean Airlines. He also went on to say that the Read the rest of this entry
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