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<span style="font-weight: bold"> Legal showdown looming between the JUTC and church group ( RJR )...</span>
The case involving the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) and a group of church goers from Portmore, St Catherine is headed for the courts. The more than 30 persons have taken legal action against the state-run bus company, after one of its units, which was chartered, crashed in Faith's Pen, St. Ann in October, leaving one person dead and several others injured.On Thursday, the churchgoers and attorney-at-law, Sean Kinghorn had a meeting in Spanish Town, St Catherine where they stated their claim."They don't intend to assist them and what they've gone as far to do is try to defend the claims that the persons have brought by saying the gentleman who they admit is their employee and their driver, was only authorized to drive the bus in the JUTC Depot. It is particularly distressing that the JUTC really has no insurance ... when you check the documentation for the bus and you see the part that is insurance, it says the Government of Jamaica," Mr. Kinghorn said.Church group would not engage the JUTC in talks - AllenFor its part, the JUTC said it has been trying to have dialogue with the passengers, however it has been blocked it its efforts.Reginald Allen, Communications Manager at the JUTC, was guarded in his comments, saying the matter is in the court. "Since the incident, the JUTC has embarked on a course of dialogue and discussion with the relevant persons but that was essentially prevented by the hierarchy of the church in terms of giving us access to the persons. They were basically sheparded into a united position against any engagement with us and ultimately we heard of legal claims etc emerging, so the matter was taken to court by the very parties who are now saying we have not been responding to them," Mr. Allen told RJR News.The bus which was chartered for the church trip reportedly flipped over three times and fell 30 feet to the bottom of a ravine in Faith's Pen, St Ann. JUTC being pulled from crash site in Faith's PenPhoto Credit: (Yaadinfo)http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...63116563731573
<span style="font-weight: bold"> Legal showdown looming between the JUTC and church group ( RJR )...</span>
The case involving the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) and a group of church goers from Portmore, St Catherine is headed for the courts. The more than 30 persons have taken legal action against the state-run bus company, after one of its units, which was chartered, crashed in Faith's Pen, St. Ann in October, leaving one person dead and several others injured.On Thursday, the churchgoers and attorney-at-law, Sean Kinghorn had a meeting in Spanish Town, St Catherine where they stated their claim."They don't intend to assist them and what they've gone as far to do is try to defend the claims that the persons have brought by saying the gentleman who they admit is their employee and their driver, was only authorized to drive the bus in the JUTC Depot. It is particularly distressing that the JUTC really has no insurance ... when you check the documentation for the bus and you see the part that is insurance, it says the Government of Jamaica," Mr. Kinghorn said.Church group would not engage the JUTC in talks - AllenFor its part, the JUTC said it has been trying to have dialogue with the passengers, however it has been blocked it its efforts.Reginald Allen, Communications Manager at the JUTC, was guarded in his comments, saying the matter is in the court. "Since the incident, the JUTC has embarked on a course of dialogue and discussion with the relevant persons but that was essentially prevented by the hierarchy of the church in terms of giving us access to the persons. They were basically sheparded into a united position against any engagement with us and ultimately we heard of legal claims etc emerging, so the matter was taken to court by the very parties who are now saying we have not been responding to them," Mr. Allen told RJR News.The bus which was chartered for the church trip reportedly flipped over three times and fell 30 feet to the bottom of a ravine in Faith's Pen, St Ann. JUTC being pulled from crash site in Faith's PenPhoto Credit: (Yaadinfo)http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...63116563731573