KINGSTON, Jamaica — Managing Director of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC), Paul Abrahams, has indicated that the authorities now have evidence that the attacks on the company’s buses are orchestrated.

Speaking a short while ago at a sitting of the Public Administration and Appropriations Committee (PAAC), Abrahams disclosed that by Monday the company will have information on the culprits.

“We have information on this” he stated, remarking that the attacks are not carried out by “idle hands”. Abrahams noted that when buses are attacked they have to be pulled off the route for lengthy periods, and passengers offloaded to find alternative means of transportation.

Abrahams informed that 237 JUTC buses have been vandalised dating back to 2013 when the incidents started. He said 81 units have been attacked between January and September this year and that the cost to the State-run company has been “astronomical”, in the region of $65 million.

He said the company is working with the police to apprehend the vandals “before something serious happens”.

Alphea Saunders