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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Transportation minister says Jamaica can be “cash free”

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Ja­maica’s Trans­porta­tion Min­is­ter says the coun­try can be­come a “crash free” so­ci­ety, as the pow­er lies in all road users to en­sure safe­ty on the road­ways.

Trans­port Min­is­ter Daryl Vaz made the state­ment as he de­liv­ered the keynote ad­dress at a de­fen­sive dri­ving work­shop in the Cor­po­rate Area on Wednes­day.

“Let us ad­vo­cate for re­spon­si­ble dri­ving from both pri­vate and pub­lic mo­torists, that per­sons obey the Road Traf­fic Act and Reg­u­la­tions, em­brace tech­nol­o­gy, and de­mand safer ve­hi­cles,” he said.

The event, held as part of Road Safe­ty Aware­ness Month ac­tiv­i­ties in June, was de­signed to train and equip dri­vers with the req­ui­site knowl­edge and skills to avoid crash­es.

Vaz al­so wel­comed the stag­ing of the De­fen­sive Dri­ving Work­shop not­ing that it not on­ly fa­cil­i­tat­ed the­o­ret­i­cal dis­cus­sions but pro­vid­ed prac­ti­cal so­lu­tions to en­sure safer and more re­spon­si­ble road use.

“It serves as a pow­er­ful plat­form to raise aware­ness and reaf­firm the col­lec­tive com­mit­ment to re­duce crash­es and save lives,” he not­ed.

He al­so re­port­ed that as at June 27, a to­tal of 203 lives have been lost from 185 fa­tal col­li­sions due large­ly to in­ap­pro­pri­ate use of the road­ways.

Pedes­tri­ans, ped­al cy­clists, mo­tor­cy­clists, and pil­lion rid­ers ac­count for 65 per cent of road users killed since the start of the year, he point­ed out.

Vaz went on to urged the par­tic­i­pants to use the in­for­ma­tion pro­vid­ed to bring about be­hav­iour change and added that the onus is on all road users to en­sure that no lives are lost due to traf­fic crash­es.

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