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Managing Director of the Transport Authority (TA), Willard Hylton, outlines plans to prepare the Authority to play its part in the achievement of Vision 2030.
Managing Director of the Transport Authority (TA), Willard Hylton, outlines plans to prepare the Authority to play its part in the achievement of Vision 2030.

Transport Authority Engages Consultant to Implement New Road Licensing System

By: PETA-GAY HODGES, August 11, 2022
The Transport Authority (TA) is putting measures in place to improve the public transportation landscape. Managing Director of the Authority, Willard Hylton, told JIS News that University of the West...
Minister of Transport and Mining, Hon. Audley Shaw, is being shown a piece of tyre by Sales and Marketing Officer at Jamaica Ultimate Tyre Company, Beverly Solomon. Occasion was the Ministry’s Jamaica 60 Expo at the Police Officers Club in St. Andrew on Friday (July 29), under the theme ‘The Embers of Evolution…Fuel for the Future’.

Minister Shaw Hails Portfolio Entities for Contribution to Nation-Building

By: PETA-GAY HODGES, August 4, 2022
Minister of Transport and Mining, Hon. Audley Shaw (second left) listens as Managing Director, Jamaica Bauxite Mining Limited (JBM), Donna Howe (left) highlights features of a bauxite mining display during the JBM’s Pop-Up Museum in commemoration of Jamaica’s 60th anniversary of Independence, which opened on August 2 at the PCJ building in New Kingston. Also listening are Minister of State in the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Dr. the Hon. Norman Dunn (second right); and Human Resource Assistant, JBM, Abigail Minott. The pop-up museum celebrates and chronicles decades of bauxite mining history in the country.

Gov’t Committed to Sustainable Bauxite Mining – Minister Shaw

By: CHRIS PATTERSON, August 4, 2022

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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (second right), accepts the keys for Build Your Dreams (BYD) electric vehicles, which will be distributed to five government ministries as part of the Government’s Electric Vehicle Trial Programme, from Managing Director of Stewart’s Automotive Group, Duncan Stewart (centre). Occasion was the launch of the programme at the Jaguar/Land Rover Showroom on Arthur Wint Drive in Kingston, on July 8. Observing (from left) are Chief Technical Director, Ministry of Science, Energy and Technology, Brian Richardson; Minister of Transport and Mining, Hon. Audley Shaw, and State Minister in MIIC, Dr. the Hon. Norman Dunn.
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Electric Vehicles Being Promoted

The Government will continue to transform the public transportation sector by using more renewable energy and electric vehicles (EVs). Speaking at the launch of the Government Electric Vehicle Trial Programme,...
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By: CHANEL SPENCE, July 11, 2022