PNP call for JUTC resignations

Opposition Spokesman on Transport and Works, Robert Pickersgill, is shying away from calling for the resignation of Transport Minister Mike Henry.



Addressing journalists at a press conference, called to comment on the findings of the Contractor General’s report into the award of contracts at the Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUCT), Pickersgill said he wants to give Henry time to make a decision on his future as a cabinet minister.



Mr. Henry had declared that Douglas Chambers, the late chairman on the JUTC, was not the majority shareholder in Simber Production limited, a company that received contracts from the JUTC without due process being followed.



The Contractor General has found that Mr. Chambers had always been the majority shareholder.



Mr. Pickersgill has called for Bindley Sangster to resign as director and acting managing director of the JUTC.



He has also called for the resignation of Dennis Chung, and Raphael Bennett as directors of the JUTC.



The Contractor General found that there were several breaches of the Government Procurement guidelines at the JUTC in the awards of contract at the state-owned bus company.



He also found that Sangster committed a criminal act by deliberately trying to mislead him.