tolls

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.

For many Jamaicans, the announcement that motorists can now use debit and credit cards to pay tolls along the North-South…

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.

Jamaica financed its newest highway with land instead of cash, and the operator’s own numbers show it wont turn a profit for 20 years. That reality sits directly behind every toll increase drivers have objected to since it opened.