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Road deaths rising

With road traffic fatalities already close to 150, there is a growing fear that the figures could rise above last year's more than 400 figure.

TOTAL Jamaica yesterday officially launched the country's first automated car wash, Total Wash, at Total Portmore Pines, Greater Portmore, St Catherine, immediately attracting residents of the Sunshine City, who wasted no time in utilising what the morning's first customer described as...

Man blames 'red tape' for wife's death

DAMIAN Clarke, husband of Cornelia Clarke, one of the passengers involved in a deadly crash along a section of Highway 2000 on April 12, believes if his family wasn't being given the runaround to clear a container at the wharf in Kingston since January, she would be alive...

JUTC REPORTS LOSSES

THE Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) is reporting a two-thirds reduction in revenue, which has been attributed mainly to COVID-19 as well as bad road conditions from heavy rainfall. Revenue has fallen from close to $300 million per month to $143 million, and ridership down from an...

Native Canadian 'Bush Tea' leads protest against reckless driving in Bluefields

BLUEFIELDS, Westmoreland — Jeff “Bush Tea” McMurray, a Canadian, who has called Jamaica his home for the past year, and was hit from his motorcycle by a speeding car, took to the streets on Tuesday with a supportive group to protest against reckless driving on the...

New SUV models star at China auto show under virus controls

SHANGHAI, China (AP) — Volkswagen, Ford and Chinese brands unveiled new SUVs for China yesterday at the Shanghai auto show, the industry's biggest marketing event, in a year overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic.

Hamilton earns 99th career pole at Emilia Romagna GP

IMOLA, Italy (AFP) — Lewis Hamilton claimed his 99th career pole position in qualifying yesterday for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, with Red Bull's Sergio Perez starting alongside the seven-time world champion's Mercedes at Imola.

JUTC extends its deadline

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited (JUTC) has granted its sub-franchise operators until May 14 to pay their road licence fees.

NRSC expresses sadness on crash

The National Road Safety Council (NRSC) is deeply saddened and alarmed by the deaths of five persons and 11 hospitalised, with some critically injured, following the horrific crash on the PJ Patterson Highway on Monday morning.

'Electric vehicles would save Jamaica millions'

“IF Jamaica were to electrify 12 to 16 per cent of its private and public fleets, the economy would benefit from approximately 2 per cent of the GDP.” This recent revelation came from Therese Turner-Jones, general manager of the Inter-American Development Bank's (IDB) Country...