Completely Unacceptable… PM Says Sorry For Poor Quarantine Conditions
Holness… while working assiduously to bring citizens home, the government cannot over-extend itself.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness has said sorry to returning Jamaicans for the poor conditions under which they have been accommodated under controlled re-entry programme.
According to Holness, the issues encountered are completely unacceptable and the Government will do everything it can to completely rectify the situation.
The Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton and the State Minister of National Security today visited the Bahia Principe Hotel in St Ann, which has generated the most complaints.
Last week, the first group of returning Jamaicans complained that on arrival at Kingston’s Norman Manley International Airport, they were hungry, denied the use of restrooms, and had to wait hours for processing.
Since then, there have been mounting complaints from Alorica call centre workers in quarantine at the hotel.
Another batch of Jamaicans who returned yesterday have raised further complaints about the food and lack of communication
In a statement this afternoon, the prime minister said much progress has been made on several aspects of the controlled re-entry programme.
However, Holness said, with 600 persons in quarantine and isolation, the Government is now stretched.
“Out of compassion and an overwhelming desire to bring our citizens home, we are now beyond our quarantine capacity,” he said.
The Prime Minister said, while working assiduously to bring citizens home, the government cannot over-extend itself.
As a result, he said, it will be at least 14 days before Jamaica is able to accommodate any sizeable additional cohort.
Gov need to open the airspace and let them pay their own fare and go home to their families go give Dem watever they take with them. Simple as that.
Ppl should try and stay put where they are if possible ,,
Simple solution: Jus tek the money the white man , hotel guru whatever gave y’all last week and buy some country fowl cook some proper meals give ppl. “The Govt is stretched” my raaas
They should allocate specific restrooms or order portables if they don’t want them to use the general restroom. As for hunger I can’t address that, but the processing does not require hours, unless they are doing hundreds of people at one time, which would take hours to get through everybody. But processing would be a one time affair I would expect.
They’re not prisoners of some war crime for crying out loud !
A lie one lady dat staying at another facility says she is treated royal Suh a the grand baha pricipe hotel that is the mess dat dey place a mess even when a hotel season. That place nothing good is there , but anyways it is not as bad as how cliff and Fiona say it was Dem a pnp activist that trying to derail govt .