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Brazil's adoration of Ayrton Senna transcends sports. It's something only someone like Pele can relate to in the country of football.

The deaths of Ayrton Senna and Roland Ratzenberger at the San Marino Grand Prix in 1994 were the last driver fatalities in Formula One. This was due largely to the safety review prompted by their deaths and ongoing measures to reduce the almost annual incidence of such tragedies in the series.

Head bailiff for Kingston and St Andrew, Augustus Sherriah, known as the sheriff, is the man at the centre of the seizure of Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) buses on order of the Supreme Court. He has been on the job since 1973.

When Matthew Gore took the chequered flag in a Thundersport II event at Dover Raceway on Easter Monday, beating David Summerbell Jr into second place, it was an indication that it could be the start of a new rivalry.

With the implementation of new rules governing circuit racing at the Dover Raceway, St. Ann, for the recent Easter Monday meet, the competitiveness seems to be rising.

The National Housing Trust (NHT) has officially gone mobile. The government organisation mandated with providing housing financing and solutions unveiled its first mobile unit in Mile Gully, Manchester, last Wednesday, under the patronage of Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller.

Some Jamaicans now living in Japan, who aced the driving test at home, are finding it hard to do so in the Land of the Rising Sun, forcing them to give up on getting a driver's licence there. Claiming frustration with the Japanese driving exam, they have resigned themselves to the bicycle or train.

Despite the absence of Doug Gore from this year's Easter Monday meet at the Dover Raceway, St Ann, the struggle for supremacy seems to be getting more intense as rival drivers prepare to do battle.

Doug Gore has got an opportunity of a lifetime, to demonstrate his superb driving skills to the world on the track with renowned Formula One race driver Lewis Hamilton. Because of this, Gore - the Caribbean's champion driver - and his Audi TT will be absent from Dover Raceway on Easter Monday, April 21, when the local 2014 circuit racing season begins.

Effective tomorrow, subfranchise buses operating in the Kingston Metropolitan Transport Region (KMTR) will be monitored by an executive inspectorate team. The Joint Caucus of Transport Operators (JCTO) said Thursday that the team has been developed to keep an eye on the conduct of its own crews in the KMTR.

President of the Jamaica Used-Car Dealers' Association (JUCDA), Lynvalle Hamilton, is looking to the Government and banks to help alleviate the pressure used-car dealers are facing.

New JianghuAi Automobile Company (JAC) passenger vehicles, made in China, have been introduced to Jamaica through authorised dealer Doyle Motor Company. Laurence Doyle, CEO, is confident that the brand can compete in the local new-car dealership marketplace.