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Parish council books in shambles
WHEN THE Auditor General begins his audit of the parish councils which Minister of Local Government Portia Simpson Miller last week ordered of three of them, he will be hard-pressed to find the information. Documents which The Sunday Gleaner acquired...
JUTC off track on Swedish road map
THREE YEARS after a team of Swedish consultants drafted a set of recommendations that should have been the Jamaica Urban Transit Company's (JUTC) road map to development and efficiency, the bus company continues to be challenged by...
New security cameras for JUTC buses
THE JAMAICA Urban Transit Company (JUTC) is to install new security cameras on its buses to put a brake on the incidents of vandalism, robberies and on persons who insist on travelling on the buses without paying.
Company boasts of reduced accident figures
THE JAMAICA Urban Transit Company has been able to bring the figures of accidents, as at March, to below 1,500. They are finding too that the cost and severity of accidents have been declining. Audited accounts state losses of $161 million in 2004. At...
Aspects of the Swedish report that have been accepted and implemented
REDUCTION OF ACCIDENTS: Introduction of a system where senior drivers act as instructors for new drivers.
Swedish roadmap for JUTC success
JUTC long-term targets for public transportation in Kingston (below, 2004 means as at March 31, 2004)...
Pride or principle?
PETER THOMAS' resignation as chairman of the Jamaica Mortage Bank (JMB) nearly three months ago was all about principle rather than suggestions of impropriety, according to a confidential document obtained by The Sunday Gleaner...
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