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Managing Director of the Transport Authority, Donald Foster addresses a JIS Think Tank on Wednesday December 9 on new colour coding rules for public passenger vehicles for the 2016 licensing period.
Managing Director of the Transport Authority, Donald Foster addresses a JIS Think Tank on Wednesday December 9 on new colour coding rules for public passenger vehicles for the 2016 licensing period.

Taxis To Be Colour-Coded

By: Peta-Gay Hodges , December 10, 2015
As part of ongoing efforts to improve the public transportation system, the Transport Authority has introduced a system of colour coding of public passenger vehicles. Under the new regime, which...
Prime Minister the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller along with former Regional Director of China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) Limited, Tang Zhongdong (3rd left) and Minister of Transport, Work and Housing, Hon. Dr. Omar Davies, posed with the recipients of CHEC's inaugural engineering scholarship. The students from left are: Clenmar Rowe, Kemmisha Skinner, David Scott, Tashae Thompson and Rushawn Marshall.

CHEC Building Young Jamaican Lives

By: Judith A. Hunter, December 4, 2015
Industry, Investment, and Commerce State Minister, Hon. Sharon Ffolkes-Abrahams (2nd right), views ‘BAMJA’ brand organic bamboo charcoal produced at the Institute of Nursing, Technology, and Household Management (INTHM), Swallowfield Road, Kingston, utilising the “Gentle Bamboo Charcoal Kiln’, which was assembled at INTHM. Others (from left) are: the kiln’s designer, INTHM Director, and engineer, Gentle Wallace; Principal, INTHM, Tressie Wallace; Director, Special Projects, Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ) and Chairman, Bamboo and Indigenous Materials Committee (BIMAC), Gladstone Rose; and INTHM’s Administrator, André Tait.

Engineer Creates First Local Organic Bamboo Kiln

By: Douglas McIntosh , November 29, 2015

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Chairman of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), Dr. Garnett Roper (left); and Managing Director, JUTC, Colin Campbell (right), assist Senior Director (Acting) of the Modernization Programme Implementation Unit, Office of the Cabinet, Michele Gordon-Somers, in cutting the ribbon to officially open the JUTC’s Customer Care Centre at the Half-Way-Tree Transport Centre on November 5.
Transport

JUTC Launches Customer Care Centre

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited (JUTC) officially launched its Customer Care Centre on Thursday (November 5), as it works to improve service delivery to its approximately 240,000 clients. The...
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By: Rochelle Williams , November 6, 2015
JUTC buses.
Transport

Another Cashless Option For JUTC Commuters

Commuters who travel on the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) buses now have another cashless and convenient option to pay their fares. The new device dubbed, ‘Prepaid Smarter Card’, is...
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By: Chris Patterson, October 31, 2015