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With one race meet remaining in the 2014 circuit racing championship at the Dover Raceway, St Ann, the Total Lubricants team is poised to make a clean sweep of the top three places.

Jamaica Used Car Dealer Association president, Lynvalle Hamilton, has explained that second-hand cars are expensive because of the duties and GCT imposed on purchases.

After less than a month of paid use, it is too early to start compiling data on the number of vehicles utilising the leg of the North-South Highway which bypasses Mount Rosser, technical services director of the National Road Operating and Construction Company (NROCC), Stephen Shaw, has said

Head of the Flying Squad, Senior Superintendent of Police Cornwall Ford, is warning car-rental businesses and car buyers to be alert, as persons have been renting vehicles from companies and then reselling them.

Recently, Miss Jamaica World 2014 Laurie-Ann Chin and Ms Universe Jamaica 2014 Kaci Fennell were both handed keys to brand-new rides following their victories in their respective pageants.

Overwhelmed by the medical condition of one of his close family members, popular circuit racer Tedroy 'Teddy' Burton has been absent from the lanes of the Dover Raceway, St Ann, for the past two years. Now, however, he has expressed an interest in returning - hopefully with a bang - next season.

Director of the Island Traffic Authority (ITA), Ludlow Powell, is aware that some public passenger vehicle (PPV) operators have been putting in additional seats. This allows the vehicles to carry more passengers than their licences permit.

The International Centre for Environmental and Nuclear Sciences (ICENS), an agency of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining (MSTEM), has developed a new low-cost mix to repair potholes using a blend made from red mud, the waste material produced from bauxite processing.

Graduates of the Jamaican-German Automotive School (JAGAS) and employees of the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) are to be trained in a programme geared towards repairing and refurbishing JUTC buses.