A diverted Cancún–Caracas flight, stranded passengers, a furious airline, and a Transport Minister still “awaiting a report” — Kingston's handling of the Conviasa incident raises hard questions about hospitality, accountability, and the cold shadow of Petrojam.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 9, 2026 | Calvin G. Brown | Caribbean News |   — Jamaica markets itself to the world as the home of warm welcomes. On Saturday, June 6, at the Norman Manley International Airport, that brand collided with an uglier reality: a planeload of Venezuelan passengers left to languish on the ground for more than eight hours, in what their national airline has condemned as treatment falling far below the international standards Jamaica is obliged to uphold.