Sandals donates buses
Sandals donated buses to Jamaica’s Fire Brigade to boost response capacity — a recent community resilience move reported on March 16, 2026 reported. It’s a visible local investment that also strengthens operational safety links with emergency services near resort properties.
Two Foton buses were handed over at the Port Maria Fire Station on March 13, 2026(jamaicaobserver.com). The vehicles were reported at a cost of $16 million and are slated to be retrofitted into ambulances by the Ministry of Local Government and Community Development(jamaica-gleaner.com). One unit will be based at Port Maria in St Mary and the other dispatched to St Ann’s Bay in St Ann, according to ceremony briefings and JFB St Mary division leadership(jamaica-gleaner.com). Jeremy Jones, regional managing director for Jamaica at Sandals Resorts International, performed the handover while Local Government Minister Desmond McKenzie cut the ribbon; Mayor Fitzroy Wilson and MP Robert Montague were also present at the March 13 ceremony(jamaicaobserver.com). JFB Head Anthony Hinds and Minister McKenzie said the retrofitted buses will enhance the brigade’s emergency medical response capability for motor-vehicle crashes and other first-responder calls in the two parishes(jamaicaobserver.com). Reporting varies on the exact donor label—accounts attribute the gift to Sandals Resorts International, Sandals Jamaica Resorts and the Sandals Foundation in separate write-ups of the March 13 handover(jamaicaobserver.com).
