The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) is urging the public to purchase their smarter cards early to avoid a rush when the cashless system is fully implemented on April 1. Marketing and Communications Assistant at the JUTC, Lisa Ann Edwards, said persons, who have already purchased the cards, can begin using them immediately. “For those persons, who have not yet...

The National Works Agency (NWA)is advising that rehabilitation of the 6.8 kilometres length of roadway between Santa Maria and Sligoville in St. Catherine is to begin shortly. The contractors are scheduled to commence works on this project with bushing and cutting of overhang along the roadway. The rehabilitation work is expected to be completed within six months of the start...

The Transport Authority is intensifying efforts to ensure that drivers and conductors of licenced Public Passenger Vehicles (PPV) comply with the regulations regarding the wearing of badges and displaying licences. Communication and Customer Services Manager at the Transport Authority, Petra-Kene Williams, said the move is part of efforts to strengthen the mechanism for safety, security and reliability of public transportation....

Chairman of the National Housing Trust (NHT), Hon. Easton Douglas, says the agency will be taking a new approach to its inner-city housing programme in 2014. “The economic times are challenging and like all other institutions, we have had to take a bold new approach to the work that we do and that includes our approach to inner-city housing,” Mr....

The seating capacity of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) is being bolstered by the addition of 20 new articulated buses, which will provide 1, 600 more passenger seats. Ten of the units will be rolled out immediately and the remaining 10 will begin operating at the start of the new school term in January. The buses were commissioned into...

Eight-five residents of Gravel Heights in St. Catherine are now proud landowners having received the titles to the property that they occupy from the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ). The residents, some of whom have been living in the area since the 1970s, received the instruments on Friday, December 13, during a ceremony held at the Redemption National Church of...

The National Works Agency (NWA) has commenced a major road patching exercise in the parish of St. Elizabeth, aimed at arresting some of the poor road conditions that exist in that parish. Under the programme, 57 kilometers of roadway will be targeted with approximately 900 square meters of patching being done. The corridors benefitting under the programme are Tombstone to...