Highways

Toll increases are pegged to US inflation and the exchange rate, not Jamaican wages. A review of two decades of toll data asks whether commuters are quietly being priced off roads their own taxes helped enable.

Toll increases are pegged to US inflation and the exchange rate, not Jamaican wages. A review of two decades of toll data asks whether commuters are quietly being priced off roads their own taxes helped enable.

Toll increases are pegged to US inflation and the exchange rate, not Jamaican wages. A review of two decades of toll data asks whether commuters are quietly being priced off roads their own taxes helped enable.

Proposed toll increases could push a North-South Highway round trip to $5,220. Whats driving the increase, and how the annual adjustment mechanism actually works.

Proposed toll increases could push a North-South Highway round trip to $5,220. Whats driving the increase, and how the annual adjustment mechanism actually works.

Proposed toll increases could push a North-South Highway round trip to $5,220. Whats driving the increase, and how the annual adjustment mechanism actually works.

TransJamaican Highway is spending over $700 million on improved on-ramps at Free Town and Hartland, arriving alongside a separate, formula-driven toll increase across the network.

TransJamaican Highway is spending over $700 million on improved on-ramps at Free Town and Hartland, arriving alongside a separate, formula-driven toll increase across the network.

TransJamaican Highway is spending over $700 million on improved on-ramps at Free Town and Hartland, arriving alongside a separate, formula-driven toll increase across the network.

Jamaica drew a hard cutoff for Crown land squatting: anyone starting after June 9, 2026 is permanently excluded from future regularisation, backed by drone surveys documenting exactly what existed before the deadline.

A criminal gang captured agricultural land inside the Bernard Lodge development and sold fake titles to it. Holness called the resulting demolition a watershed moment, and drew a careful line between it and ordinary squatting.

The African Martyrs of Uganda Roman Catholic Church in Bull Bay, which also runs a clinic and basic school serving over 800 people a month, faced demolition for the Southern Coastal Highway, with no clarity on an alternative site.

The National Works Agency announced minor alignment changes to the Southern Coastal Highway at sections including St Benedict The Moor Catholic Church in Bull Bay, at a town hall meeting held in the church itself.

The North-South Highway deal included 1,200 acres of land, some of it prime north-coast property, transferred without a formal market valuation. The public still doesnt have a clear answer on what it was actually worth.

The North-South Highway deal included 1,200 acres of land, some of it prime north-coast property, transferred without a formal market valuation. The public still doesnt have a clear answer on what it was actually worth.