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As part of its continued efforts to reduce road fatalities, the National Road Safety Unit is proposing modernizing the Road Traffic Act, to include restrictions on the use of cell phones and other gadgets by motorists while driving. While there are no statistics speaking directly to the issue, Director of the Unit, Kenute Hare, argues that the cell phone is...

Minister of Tourism, Hon Edmund Bartlett, says his Ministry has allocated $50 million for landscaping works along Segment 1A of the Northern Coastal Highway in Bogue, St. James. This development of a second ‘Elegant Corridor’ for the City of Montego Bay, is part of efforts to further boost the appeal of the renowned resort area, he said. The Tourism Minister...

Jamaica’s Consul General, Sandra Grant Griffiths, has called on Jamaicans in the Diaspora to recommit to the Air Jamaica/Caribbean Airways (CAL) brand, as evidence of CAL’s confidence in the country.  Speaking to a large crowd of Jamaicans and friends of the Diaspora at the re-launch reception on Friday (January 21) at the Renaissance Hotel, Plantation, Mrs. Griffiths said that Jamaica...

Minister of Transport and Works, Hon. Mike Henry, officially opened the $2.2 billion Segment 1A of the Northern Coastal Highway Improvement Project in Bogue, St. James on Wednesday (January 19). Improvements to the corridor, which is considered a major entrance and exit point for Montego Bay, was undertaken by Surrey Paving and Aggregates Limited over a 26-month period. Speaking at...

MANDEVILLE — Work is underway on the Christiana Development Road project in Manchester, and is slated for completion by the end of the year. The project, budgeted to cost some $700 million, is being undertaken as part of the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP), and involves constructing a one-kilometer road on the outskirts of the town of Christiana. The two-lane...

Transport and Works Minister, Hon. Michael Henry, says he will be requesting that some US$300 million be set aside in the 2011/12 Budget to fund the continuation of the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP). The five-year programme is being funded by a loan of US$400 million from the Export/Import Bank of China. A sum of US$60 million has been allocated...

Prime Minister Bruce Golding opened the long-anticipated Municipal Transport Centre in downtown Kingston on Saturday (January 15), with strong support from both commuters and transport operators. Mr. Golding described the opening of the centre and the new public transportation system envisaged by the Transport Authority to go with it as, “a significant advance in the rationalization of public transportation in...

Minister of Transport and Works, Hon Mike Henry, broke ground for the construction of the new Rio Grande Bridge in St Margaret’s Bay, Portland, at a ceremony in that community on Wednesday (January 12). The bridge, which will be built at a cost of US$26 million, will replace the one which collapsed in 2008 as a result of flooding. Work...

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) is assuring commuters that there will be adequate buses to service the shuttle system that will form part of the new downtown Kingston transport arrangement. Speaking at a JIS Think Tank this week, the company’s Corporate Communications Manager, Reginald Allen, informed that eight buses, consisting of four articulated and four regular buses, have been...

Members of the public traversing the busy downtown business district should have little difficulty adjusting to the new transport arrangements. General Manager at the Transport Authority (TA) in charge of operations, Cecil Morgan, told JIS News that when the new system becomes effective, on Saturday (January 15), signs will be used to direct commuters.  “We want to ensure that we...

The new downtown Kingston transport system, to be implemented on January 15, is being hailed as ‘highly beneficial’ to commuters and persons doing business in the area. Transport Authority (TA) General Manager for Operations, Cecil Morgan, told JIS News that the new system will prove “quite beneficial” to the general public. “It’s really a very good move on the part...

Effective Thursday, January 13, 2011, the National Works Agency (NWA) will be re- implementing major changes to the flow of traffic through the Bog Walk Gorge in St. Catherine.  The changes are being re-implemented in order to allow for the continuation of the pipe laying activities by the National Water Commission (NWC). Starting Thursday, the permanent traffic signals at the...