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Come next year, the government-owned Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) will be placing increased focus on improving its operations, including strengthening its fleet, as it strives to provide a safe, modern, and reliable bus system for the travelling public. Managing Director, Paul Abrahams, tells JIS News that the JUTC "suffers tremendously" from an aged fleet, and the "lack of funding...

The National Works Agency (NWA) is advising motorists that Old Church Road in St. Andrew, adjacent to the recently constructed Waterloo Bridge, will be closed temporarily, from Monday, January 4, 2010 to Saturday, January 30, 2010. Closure of this roadway is to facilitate Phase III of the Waterloo Bridge/Road Improvement Programme, currently underway along the corridor. The alternative route for...

In keeping with the recent recommendations of the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR), bus and taxi fares are to be increased by 20 per cent, effective Saturday, January 16, 2010. Transport and Works Minister, the Hon Mike Henry, in advising of the pending new transportation rate, said that the bus and taxi operators had convinced the OUR of the need...

From 10:00 p.m. tonight (December 28) until 5:00 a.m. on Tuesday, December 29, the Port Royal Road will be closed, to facilitate removal of the mid-section of the American Airlines aircraft, which overshot the runway at the Norman Manley International Airport on December 22. The tail section was removed on December 26, while the nose of the aircraft was removed...

This is to advise that the Port Royal main road will reopen at 1:00 am instead of 4:00 am as the operation to remove another portion of the plane has been successful.

The Port Royal Road will be closed today (December 27), from 10:00 p.m. until 4:00 a.m. on Monday, December 28, to facilitate removal of another section of the American Airlines aircraft, which overshot the runway at the Norman Manley International Airport on December 22. The tail section was removed in an operation which began last night (December 26), at 10:45...

The Port Royal Road will be closed today (December 26), from 10:45 p.m. until 3:00 a.m. on Sunday, December 27, to facilitate removal of the tail section of the American Airlines aircraft, which overshot the runway at the Norman Manley International Airport on December 22. A crane will be deployed to carry out the removal exercise at the site, which...

The Ministry of Health says that of the fourteen passengers admitted to hospital following Tuesday's night's accident at the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA), only one person remains in hospital. According to a release from the Ministry, the reports it has received revealed that 100 injured passengers were seen at hospitals in Kingston and St. Andrew. "The number reflects eight...

The National Works Agency (NWA) is reporting that blockages to roadways in eastern parishes of St. Mary and St. Ann have been cleared. These roadways and drains were blocked by landslips, wash-down silt, debris, fallen rocks and trees, caused by heavy rainfall that affected these parishes over the past 72 hours. In St. Mary, all main roads that were affected...

The recommendations of the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) in respect of taxi and bus fares will be taken to Cabinet early in the New Year, Minister of Transport and Works Minister, Hon. Mike Henry, has said. Mr. Henry was responding to concerns raised by segments of the national taxi umbrella groupings about the OUR recommendations, in light of the...

A hotline number has been set up at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade to accommodate inquiries from consulates and concerned family members of passengers on the American Airline jet, which experienced landing problems at the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, last night (Dec. 22). Speaking at a press conference today (Dec. 23) at Jamaica House in...

A team of investigators from the United States (US) National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is currently in the island to help with investigations into the incident, involving an American Airlines aircraft, last night (December 22). The aircraft, carrying 148 passengers, plus a crew of six, from Miami USA, presumably overshot the runway of the Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston,...