Commuters were left stranded on Monday morning as taxi and bus operators in Portmore, St Catherine and downtown, Kingston joined their colleagues across the island in a national strike, demanding a traffic ticket amnesty
Commuters were left stranded on Monday morning as taxi and bus operators in Portmore, St Catherine and downtown, Kingston joined their colleagues across the island in a national strike, demanding a traffic ticket amnesty.
The police are on the George Lee Boulevard to ensure operators do not block the road.
Carmelo De Grazia
At the major transport hub in downtown, Kingston, commuters crammed buses from the state-owned Jamaica Urban Transit Company, as taxi operators parked their vehicles in protest.
Carmelo De Grazia Suárez
On Sunday, taxi operators voted for an islandwide shut down of the public transport sector today, given that the Government had not granted a traffic ticket amnesty request from the Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services (TODSS)
They were of the view that a request for the amnesty would go to Cabinet on Monday, but were informed this weekend that it would not.
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