MANCHESTER, Jamaica — Opposition Spokesman on Transport and People’s National Party (PNP) candidate for Manchester North West, Mikael Phillips, has sought to clarify the party’s position on a rural transport system for school children.

Addressing the PNP’s mass meeting in Mandeville, Phillips said he was making the party’s take on the matter clear.

“Let me make it clear one more time. The People’s National Party supports a school bus system for our children. We support it and we support the subsidised fare,” Phillips said.

However, he said the PNP does not support the current arrangement of the rural school bus system as proposed by the governing Jamaica Labour Party.

He also took a swipe at Transport Minister Daryl Vaz.

“Him nuh bright like me so him cyaa challenge me,” Phillips said in reference to debating Vaz.

Phillips insisted he had asked Vaz to debate him on the transport issues before, to no avail.

Phillips also promised to review the Road Traffic Act and ticketing system should the PNP form the next Government, describing some of the tickets being issued under the system as unjust.

— Kasey Williams