JUTC buses in the Half Way Tree Transportation Centre. (Photo: jutc.gov.jm)
November 15, 2022
JUTC says passengers injured, buses damaged in protests
KINGSTON, Jamaica— The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) is reporting that several passengers were injured and two buses damaged in separate incidents on Monday when taxi drivers and other transport operators staged protests across the country to press their demand for a traffic ticket amnesty.
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Corporate Communications Manager at the JUTC, Cecil Thoms, said at approximately 3:20pm, a route 97 bus which plies the downtown Kingston to Bull Bay route was travelling along the intersection of Windward Road and South Camp Road when passengers began shouting that they were having difficulty breathing.
Thoms explained that there was an altercation between students, one of whom dispensed pepper spray inside the bus.
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“The driver reportedly opened the front door to get passengers out of the unit, while other passengers reportedly broke the side glass of the unit, both right and left in a bid to exit the bus. It is understood that police personnel who were passing by observed what was happening and provided assistance. The student who released the pepper spray was pointed out and was taken into police custody,” Thoms said.
He outlined that in the second incident, a stone was hurled inside a bus travelling from Half-Way Tree to Spanish Town on route 32B in the vicinity of Eastwood Park Road and Courtney Walsh Drive around 7:40 pm.
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“One passenger was injured but his wounds are not considered life-threatening. The bus was intercepted by the police along Washington Boulevard near Marverley and a male passenger was taken to hospital,” Thoms shared.
The JUTC is encouraging persons who filmed the two incidents and anyone else who may have information, to provide same to the police to help in their investigations.
“We are also pleading with those who would seek to perpetrate violence, the hoodlums who engage in this reckless practice of stoning our buses to stop it. Such actions only serve to diminish the service we provide to the travelling public and endanger their lives,” Thoms remarked.
