JAMAICA – Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday officially opened the island’s third international airport at Boscobel in St Mary.
Named in honour of late British author and journalist Ian Fleming, who created James Bond, the Ian Fleming International Airport will primarily handle private jets with specialised service for scheduled charters.
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MR SKERITT JAMAICA ON NUMBER THREE AND WHAT NUMBER ARE WE ON……………………………………( ) ????
According to Wikipedia Jamaica’s GDP per Capita is US$8,777.00 and Dominica’s GDP per Capita is US$10,177. So Dominicans please don’t get bothered because we don’t have an international airport while others have multiple international airports, we are doing quite well here.
Tru that!!!!!
It will come in time
Great achievement!! Another airport to boost one of jamaica’s main industry..EMMIGRATION
Yes, Ras. Now DA’ans are measuring success based on the number of “big” airports a country/island has….and some of them are actually criticizing their beautiful island, because we don’t have an airport than can accommodate certains air traffic. Well, go ahead and criticize – my calabash-minded friends. JA has three airports, but the majority of ordinary citizens are wallowing in poverty and sub-standard living. I will take my nature isles any day (without a big airport) over JA. That is why all JA’ans are running to Canada, England, and the U.S.
Why can’t you comment on a positive news article without making disparaging remarks about a country and its people? I read just about all online Caribbean news and blogs and I am yet to see Jamaicans making derogatory statements about Dominica or Dominicans. The last time I looked at an International migration Index Dominica had a higher net migration rate per 1000 than Jamaica. Does that suggest that the Dominican people are ‘wallowing in poverty”? Naturally Jamaicans will be more visible than other Caribbean immigrants in the countries you mentioned, simply because they make up more than half of the population of the entire English speaking Caribbean. The population of Dominica for example is listed as 72,000 and the population of Jamaica’s 5th largest urban area, May Pen and its suburbs is 82,000.
The redeveloped airport is 5 miles outside of Ocho Rios and is geared more than anything else to stimulate further tourism development which will create opportunities for some of the people you describe as “wallowing in poverty”. There are currently 3 international and 4 domestic airports with two more on stream.
Frankly, I would have been more excited if was the Vernamfield airport which was being opened. This airport, outside of May Pen has the potential to generate thousands of jobs and business opportunities. It sits on a site larger than Manhattan Island and during its operation as an US airbase had three intersecting runways which can all be rehabilitated if necessary. The main runway I understand is to be extended to 11,000 feet. Successive governments have so far failed to develop the facility as an international cargo and aircraft maintenance airport with road and rail connection to all major cities as promised. So it’s not only in Dominica that such projects are stalled.
I conduct business in JA. If you live or have been in JA, you know very well what I am saying. My statements stand. The tourists areas are given tons of resources while the rest of JA are slums and crime infested. Common. My point was: We don’t have an international airport, but we don’t have the type of socio-economic ills that JA has…The cost of living is so high, that the wages my friend earns from working in a hotel can barely make ends meet. I am not just some Joe Blow blowing smoke. I have seen it and lived it…
I thinks sometimes we read headlines and just runaway with them.
First the term “International Airport” has nothing to do with the size of the airport. It has to do with the type of air traffic it handles. International flights(flights coming from and departing to a foreign country). That’s it.
This airport has a runway length of 5000ft. A mere 200ft longer than Melville Hall. It can only handle small private jets. It cannot accommodate the standard passenger jet aircraft.
@drisdale.
Ian Fleming wrote all his 14 James Bond novels at his Jamaican estate home known as Golden Eye. That estate is now the Golden Eye Hotel and Resort. It is a mere 10 minutes away from this airport. The JA govt felt that naming it after him would be a good way of promoting the area to the international aviation community.
DON’T WORRY MY DOMINICAN PEOPLE , SKERRIT WILL ASK THE CHINESE TO BUILD ONE FOR US.
Yeah but look who the JLP name the airport after, a British writer. Not even one of their many national heroes. The Jamaican people take that like a slap to the face .
mind u buziness at least they have something to name WHERE IS DOMINICA OWN? 3 international airports eh!! we yet to get one off the ground . jamaicans know what they want and teh definiley know how to get ,min unno buziness, old jancrow
bob marley intl. airport
Technically we have 2 international airports.
International airports refer to airports that have immigration & customs facilities due to the fact they handle traffic between two or more different nations.
I totally agree with ur definition!
We cannot compare ourselves with countries such as JA – consider the size of the population, the size of the island (which I believe is roughly about the size of Connecticut), We also need to consider that the tourism industry in JA which is years ahead of ours – millions of visitors per yr.
We do need an airport which will accomodate larger flights; we simply need to stop playing politicts with the issue and we cannot dwell in the past (no need to say if the airport was built in the 80s because it wasnt).
I am a Dominican leaving outside and it upsets me that i can get a cheaper direct flight to many of the sister islands – St Lucia, B’dos, Antigua and St Maarten. I could go to these destinations twice or three times if am lucky before I can take a trip home. We need to be more competitve than that…..!
Ok Monti…. we hear you loud and clear! Now stop using company time to comment on DNO!
Maybe one day we will get one hopefully in my lifetime
please do get it clear. but this is not a commercial airport.each to his own.together WE.will take DOMINICA to the next level.{smile}
Dominica is so lame…gonna move to Jamaica!
You, my calabash-minded friend, need some help. you don’t know what you have in DA.
LOL @ “calabash-minded friend”…. hahaha where allu does get nuh? lol
On a serious note…. dat was a very dotish comment to make weee…
In retrospect, I agree with you. I take it back. that low blow was not necessary.
hhhhhmmmm wow if this airport had come back in the mid 80’s to early 90’s lester coke n the rest of the shower posse would be billionaires,,,i’m just saying,,,,these guys had marijuana coming through miami int’l then shipped to jfk int’l n served the tri-state area became instant millionaires,,,hhhmmm maybe vivian blake would still be in the u.s and would not have started the ‘queen of the dancehall’ competition,,,,,yep yep more big shots gonna transport dere weed eh,,,,, admin n i can pull up n puff some too
bloody don key
Remember it was 30 years from 2005. So 24 years to go lol
Everywhere in JA has an airstrip. The place is very flat
for ‘an attorney’ you are a real idiot…take a break from the law books and do some geography – the blue mountains – hello…
hehhehe
Waw. Ja is on its third and Da doesnt even have one. Great going…Da u’ll get there someday