Improving Our Transportation System

We have heard the complaints of private bus owners as it relates to their buses not being allowed to operate within the KMTR. I would like to sugggest a possible way of engaging these investors.

They could be incorporated into the JUTC's fleet. Allow me to expand.

The JUTC's chief dispatchers would be aware of the number of buses that they have available by 3 am each morning. The private bus crews would report to the chief dispatcher to receive a route assignment for the day based on the shortage of JUTC buses. The bus and its crew would be managed and regulated by the JUTC for the entire day.

Technology must be used to inform the chief dispatchers of buses and crews that are not eligible for dispatch. Either a system of rotation or 'first come first served' could be used to determine which buses and crews are utilized each morning.

There must be harsh penalties for breaches of the stipulated rules and regulations! 

In any event, someone must sit with these persons and inform them that we will not go back to the "DO IT ANYWAY YOU LIKE" system. The transportation of people requires the highest levels of safety and discipline.

Written by Andrew Nembhard

Improving Our Transportation System - Andrew Nembhard

We have heard the complaints of private bus owners as it relates to their buses not being allowed to operate within the KMTR. I would like to sugggest a possible way of engaging these investors.

They could be incorporated into the JUTC's fleet. Allow me to expand.

The JUTC's chief dispatchers would be aware of the number of buses that they have available by 3 am each morning. The private bus crews would report to the chief dispatcher to receive a route assignment for the day based on the shortage of JUTC buses. The bus and its crew would be managed and regulated by the JUTC for the entire day.

Technology must be used to inform the chief dispatchers of buses and crews that are not eligible for dispatch. Either a system of rotation or 'first come first served' could be used to determine which buses and crews are utilized each morning.

There must be harsh penalties for breaches of the stipulated rules and regulations! 

In any event, someone must sit with these persons and inform them that we will not go back to the "DO IT ANYWAY YOU LIKE" system. The transportation of people requires the highest levels of safety and discipline.

Fi Wi Concerns - Michael Spence

Hol' A Piss Any Where In Jamaica!!!

We Do It At Any Corner

A man it is reported is before the courts being charged under the litter act for urinating on the street. Where are the public bathroom facilities downtown Kingston do you know, if you are on Princess Street and have an emergency where do you go? I guess run to the urinal in the vicinity of the Supreme court or rush to the bus park or to the St William Grant park in Parade and pray they are open and you have your fee or go buy a patty or food in a restaurant that have bathroom facilities for patrons. The KSAC should make it mandatory for every business have bathroom facilities for patrons as some do not even have for workers. There is an unsightly illegal urinal at the corner of Barry and Princess Streets could be regularized by the KSAC even if they have to charge.17/04/15

You need to direct the people where to get those civic pride seeds to cultivate as we seem to have destroyed our seed bank with all the good seeds. We have to go back to basics .In our rural primary schools we sang a song that goes like this "bits of paper lying on the ground makes the place untidy pick them up" it was sung and the action s accompanied it. There was another I always remember "The heights of great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight while their companions slept they were toiling upward through the night”. Nastiness, laziness and crime are all related to a lack of civic pride.19/04/15

Accepting Cheques 

It is a waste of resources to spend money and time on that kind of legal tender enforcement market forces will do what it can. Not all Chinese owned operators are alike there are some who even take my cheques once they get to certify your integrity by dealing with you over a period. I have had to teach somehow cheques work and they do take money to the bank but many are very discreet and for security you cannot see where, when and how so the belief they do not deal with banks not true ,many of the more enlightened actually do. 19/04/15

Chronixx

Dark Side of Chronixx?

What many do not understand including Chronixx is that "he who has economic power has real political power" says Karl Marx so Obama in a country dominated by Capitalist economics although being the President he is constrained as to what he can do, so one cannot be too hard on him and must remember that America is not a dictatorship. America is not North Korea, China, Russia or even Cuba. Calling Obama a "waste man" using the standard uncomplimentary dance hall understanding is motivated by a level of ignorance and "youthful exuberance".20/04/15

While The Dump Burns Our Leaders Fiddle - AYS Listener Writes

Riverton City Dump Burns

Last week the Riverton city dump  smoke threatened a  chikungunya like  epidemic in the corporate area. No one can say with authority if there will be any long term life threatening  effects from this. The responses of some in the seat of power and even some of the general population are an eye opener and a disgust to say the least. But why should I be surprised and expect anything different.

I live in the Hallandale community Bordered by Mannings Hill and Red Hills roads on the East and West, Border Avenue to the north and a major gully to the south.  We have suffered for years from the noxious fumes from fires being lit in the gully. Apart from the  stench which permeates your home  leaving an undesirable odour and residue on curtains and laundry , we have no idea of the type of toxic substances emanating from these  fires.  Coupled with this is the apparent weakening of the gully floor and wall from the constant fires,  so great is the damage that a part of the retaining wall of some homes have  collapsed leaving the land and houses at risk.

More Smoke

On Friday March 13th at the peak of the smoke invasion from the dump the gardener of a neighbour chose to burn and when accosted was truculent saying the whole place was already filled with smoke.

There are fines for persons who break the law by starting these fires but this does not appear to be a deterrent due to a lack of enforcement.

Who Cares?

We have communicated the problem with various authorities, the police, health, fire, the Councillor and Member of Parliament. without any success in alleviating the situation.

Where is our Minister of the Environment ? He is embarrassingly silent since his promises of the last fire. On March 17,  I was not at all pleased with the response of our Prime Minister to reporters  questions on the  dump fire. it reminds me of the fire which consumed Rome while Portia,  sorry I meant Nero,  played the fiddle.

Michael Spence Speaks Out!!!

By Michael Spence

Teefing is Part of Endemic Culture?

Really fraud or only alleged fraud at the Accountant General’s office where if you go there in the flesh with all the verification they insist on having your "death certificate" in order to pay the little pension to the old suffering pensioner.Dem tight dung deh so till a di last place I would believe a big thieving a gwaan and I bet is years it a gwaan nuff people eat good food dung deh. They must be locked up till dem produce dem death certificate. On the other hand it seems everybody a teef so what is it part of the endemic culture so "a nuh nutten'.My advice though do not steal as prison life nuh nice  ask Ninjaman or Jah cure and mi nuh know how Kartel a gwaan? phone him tell him fi buss a tune mek wi hear what a gwaan.28/10/14

Abortion

Why not women need to decide on their own destiny if this was a real cooperative society where all children and pregnancies belong to everyone of us then abortion would be almost unnecessary. This society has become even more individualistic by the passing hour so preventing people from doing things in their best interest via laws only wastes time and create criminals out of people unnecessarily. Section 72 of the Offences Against the Person Act saying anyone found guilty of having or facilitating an abortion could be sentenced to life in prison, with or without hard labour. In this day and age a law like this in is ridiculous and going nowhere it is time indeed to legalize abortion as it is happening all over the place underground and over ground.28/10/14

Everybody knows that boards reflect party in power and so do principals in many cases.Dr Omeally-Nelson what is your solution to this an embedded situation,it couldn't only be to sensitize MPs on the issue as they already know they have been fostering it for decades so why change now is there a compelling reason ?27/10/14

Dealing With IMF Barbados Style

Finance and Economic Minister Chris Sinckler of Barbados is right they can if they have the discipline to do the things needed to be done without an IMF big stick. Jamaica could do the same but it is obvious we lack discipline and engage in "run wid it" economics that puts politics over sensible economics. I hope Barbados succeeds and demonstrate what self discipline can achieve.27/10/14