JUTC/UAWU meet over debt

  The management of  the Jamaica Urban Transit Company, JUTC, is to meet later this morning with the University & Allied Workers Union, UAWU, to discuss the company's indebtedness and its impact on workers.

     It has been revealed that the state-run bus company owes four point nine billion dollars in statutory deductions.   

     First Vice President of  the UAWU, Clifton Grant, explains that the meeting was arranged to soothe discomfort among the workers.   Following today's meeting, Mr Grant also intends to meet with  Transport Minister Dr Omar Davies, in relation to his cabinet submission that will be presented next week.