Due to the foiled terror plot yesterday, airlines have new rules. While each is different, the following items appear to be banned on all outgoing flights from Jamaica unless they are in checked luggage, not in any carry-on.

. All liquids, including cosmetics, lotions, contact lens solution, water, and liquor bought at duty-free shops.

. All gels including toothpaste and lip gloss

. Any prescription medicines not in containers that match the name of the passenger.

Also, the airlines are suggesting that you arrive three to four hours beforehand because security is taking much longer.

Each airline has slightly different rules, so check with them before you depart.

I understand the rules, it is what it is, however, for the duty free liquor. Those are purchased after we actually check in and they should allow it with our proof of purchase at the airport.

Tee,sorry,but don't get yourself mixed up.
People nowadays manipulate anything,and the whole store of liquor is not worth one life.
Please reconsider your opinion.I travel three or four times per year,in my home I have a little corner called my Jamaican corner,I'm very sorry it's going empty and i'm going to jamaica in couple of days and I won't bring a bottle back.I'll miss my rum and appleton but i'll do without if that's what it takes.DON"T FORGET 9-11 .

Can't you buy the the liquor at the airport & have the shop deliver it to the plane ?

Jamaica will loose a lot of $$ if people can not carry back Rum & Tia Maria.

Nurse ratchet

Unfortunately the answer to that is no. Not even duty free liquids can be purchased and delivered to you on the plane (which is usually the norm, at least here in canada) ~ unless you are willing to put them into your checked luggage.

Up here they are talking about many of the kiosks that will probably be closing if this banning of liquids goes for more than 5 or 6 days. The duty free shops are very afraid of what this is going to do to their business and I imagine that many of the businesses that count on travellers taking rum back with them (from JA) will be feeling the same way.

I imagine that they cannot even take the chance with the duty free stores as they are saying one of the people in London was a security officer thereby showing that security can be breached.

SHOUT OUT TO REBECCA, SILVAN, HIO, LAVERN & ROBERT ~ WE THINK OF YOU ALL OFTEN!!!!! SOON COME

Balderdash!
If you purchase liquor at the airport after being checked for "explosives", only a nitwit would object that that is somehow "unsafe". The Jam government needs to apply some sorely needed simple common sense. Just because our government is run by freedom hating Mensa Society drop-outs, doesn't mean that the rest of the world must lower themselves to the lowest common denominator.
9-11 was carried out by Saudi nationals using box cutters, not by Joe and Jane Tourist carrying back some Appleton Estate Extra purchased after being searched.
If some of you are willing to give up your freedoms to live a life without those freedoms how can you still call yourself free?

Too bad your luggage is checked in BEFORE you get to the duty free shops.
I usually buy a couple of bottles in the market and pack them in my luggage anyway.

The US has NEVER checked my luggage on return.
I HATE having the extra stuff to carry on anyway.

Now if they rearranged the locations/order of the duty free shops and the baggage check ins...

I've always laughed at the crackdown on carry on items. God forbid you should get on an aircraft with a pair of nail scissors, but they don't mind you getting on with bottles of highly flammable liquor (overproof white rum), not to mention the glass bottles it is contained in. Anyone could break those bottles and create a dangerous weapon. I was allowed to board an aircraft wearing a necklace that would have caused serious damage but they completely overlooked it. Not to mention the fact that I also had inadvertantly left pepper spray in my handbag. Got through with that no problem. The whole thing is entirely hilarious.

At the end of the day,people should be the government,but it is not so.Today government is individual.Therefore there is no freedom.DON'T BE FOOOOOOOOOOOOOLED.

Why don't you get your rums and liquors in the supermarkets and put them in your suitcases, the stuff is not more expensive there, than in the so called DUTY FREE STORES or INBOND STORES, that way you will get them home, providing you pack them safe, wrap them in a lada-scandal bag first,(that way there will be less of these littering the Jamaican streets). It is the easiest way to get your bottles home.

Hmm. I have always taken my pepper spray out of my purse (paranoid about having problems at airport security).

I am willing to carry my rum Kate !

Several people could chip in and buy a full case of liquor at the supermarket. Then, drop it into another well-padded carton and seal it up. And check it through as luggage. Probably no chance of breakage. And if there is breakage it wouldn't be into your clothing in the suitcase.

MilwaukeeMike...i take it that your in favor of 'profiling' at airports?

By love the rum more than terrorists on Sunday, August 13, 2006 - 01:08 am:
Why don't you get your rums and liquors in the supermarkets and put them in your suitcases, the stuff is not more expensive there, than in the so called DUTY FREE STORES or INBOND STORES, that way you will get them home, providing you pack them safe, wrap them in a lada-scandal bag first,(that way there will be less of these littering the Jamaican streets). It is the easiest way to get your bottles home.


Problem solved !

More hilarious is the reocurring appearance of
chainsaws confiscated during baggage inspection --evidence of the usual stupidity on both
sides of the TSA lines. But then, they can always be used 'back on the ranch' where few Mensans are known to roam.

From today's newspaper, of which I find the last paragraph most telling:

On Sunday, the TSA made it mandatory for shoes to be run through X-ray machines as passengers go through metal detectors. They were begun in late 2001, after the arrest of Richard Reid aboard a trans-Atlantic flight when he tried to ignite an explosive device hidden in his shoe. The shoe scans have been optional for several years.

In its April 2005 report, "Systems Engineering Study of Civil Aviation Security - Phase I," the Homeland Security Department concluded that images on X-ray machines don't provide the information necessary to detect explosives.

Machines used at most airports to scan hand-held luggage, purses, briefcases and shoes have not been upgraded to detect explosives since the report was issued.

TSA spokeswoman Yolanda Clark said putting shoes on the X-ray machines makes the screening process more efficient and eliminates confusion. "We do not have a specific threat regarding shoes," Clark said. "In an abundance of caution we require all shoes to be removed and X-rayed to mitigate a variety of threats," such as potential weapons.

Brian, If you're asking me should Mildred Gertz, 78, from Sheboygan Wisconsin, be made to take off her shoes or even be subject to the random strip search or should we search Abdul Muhammed, 25, from Yemen, I'll search young Mr. Muhammed each and every time. Sorry. I wish it wasn't so. It certainly is very unfair to young Mr. Muhammed, but until the Mildred Gertz's of the world start blowing up buildings, we should target those most likely to want to kill you and I.