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With the start of the new academic year less than three weeks away, the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) is encouraging commuters, especially students, to use the Smart Card to make their travel easier. In an interview with JIS News, Corporate Communications Manager at the JUTC, Mr. Reginald Allen, says that the card provides a safe way of paying fares...

Senior Land Tenure Specialist with the Land Administration and Management Programme (LAMP), Lisa Campbell, has said that the land titling initiative is helping persons to own their homes. Miss Campbell, who was addressing the weekly meeting of the Rotary Club of Mandeville at the Golf View Hotel on Tuesday (August 17), said that the programme, geared to fast tracking the...

It is expected that 6,700 jobs will be created for Jamaicans, with the $36 billion (US$400 million) islandwide road repair project, which is being implemented by the National Works Agency (NWA). The work, which will begin later this year and completed in the course of five years, will be carried out under the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP). This was...

The Bog Walk Bridge in St. Catherine, which connects the town with Linstead, was officially re-opened on Thursday (August 18) after being closed in 2008 by the National Works Agency (NWA) due to its deterioration. The new bridge, costing over US$2.5 million, was built under the R.A. Murray International Limited/Jamaica Bridge Development Programme. It was completed earlier this year and...

Work on reconstruction of a permanent bridge across the Dry (Hope) River, Harbour View, in eastern St. Andrew, will start this month, following Wednesday's (August 18) groundbreaking ceremony. The previous bridge, destroyed during Tropical Storm Gustav in August 2008, was the most viable access between Kingston and the eastern parishes, including St. Thomas and Portland. Since then, the National Works...

With little more than two weeks remaining before schools re-open for the new academic year, the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) says it is even more equipped to deal with the increased usage than it has been in recent years. "In comparison to last year, things are quite better, as we have more buses. Apart from greater numbers, the reliability...

Users of the Harbour Road in Rockfort, Kingston, will soon benefit from improved road conditions. An $18.4 million contract for the rehabilitation of the roadway was signed on August 13 at the Leila Tomlinson Basic School in the community. The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) is providing $13.2 million in funding for the project, through a grant from the European...

Inspector at the Island Traffic Authority (ITA), Clive McDonald, has said that the ITA is seeing increasing levels of compliance among truck and trailer drivers, since the company launched a campaign in December to clamp down on overladen trucks on the nation's roads. "We started out with a compliance rate of 46 per cent (in December) and in May the...

Effective Monday, August 16, 2010, the National Works Agency (NWA) will be implementing major changes to the flow of traffic through the Bog Walk Gorge in St. Catherine. Starting next Monday, only south bound vehicles (those heading towards Spanish Town) will be allowed through the Gorge, between the hours of 7:00 am and 9:00 am on weekdays. Between the hours...

The National Works Agency (NWA) will be closing a section of the Junction main road, St. Mary, on Wednesday (August 11), a release from the NWA Tuesday (August 10) has stated. The roadway will be closed for two hours, between 12 noon and 2 p.m. in the community of Devon Pen, in order to facilitate the relaying of a damaged...

Plans are advanced for the start of work on the Rio Grande Bridge construction project in Portland within the next four months. The new structure will replace the rail bridge, which has been in use since 2005. The project will be funded jointly by the Governments of Jamaica and China under the Jamaica Road Development Infrastructure Programme. Communications Manager at...

The Ministry of Transport and Works and the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) officially welcomed the ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Limited's mega-vessel, ZIM Antwerp, on its third trip to Jamaica, on Thursday August 5. The vessel, one of the largest container ships globally, is docked at the Kingston Container Terminal's (KCT) Western Berth at Port Bustamante, which was built to...