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  • JUTC managers get walking papers

    published: Thursday | October 11, 2007

    Daraine Luton, Staff Reporter
    FIVE SENIOR MANAGERS at the state-owned Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) had their contracts terminated yesterday by company president Ryan White.

    Douglas Chambers, the newly appointed chairman of the JUTC board, confirmed yesterday that five persons, including the vice-presidents of finance and operations, were terminated before the new board met with managers yesterday.

    "It is irrelevant how anybody at JUTC was employed. The only thing that will make them keep their jobs is professionalism, integrity or honesty," Mr. Chambers told The Gleaner.

    A release from the JUTC yesterday said that the company was reorganising its operations to increase efficiency.

    "The reorganising will result in positions being made redundant," the release said.

    Mr. Chambers, a chartered accountant who has taken leave from his company to head the JUTC, said the JUTC has been working closely with the trade unions for the last three weeks so as to ensure that "all the proper procedures" are followed in the termination of employment contracts.

    Mr. Chambers officially took up the job as chairman of the JUTC board on Monday, but said he has been working for up to 15 hours daily for the last three weeks in the capacity.

    Reducing the company's losses
    Mike Henry, Minister of Transport and Works, on Tuesday told journalists at a post-Cabinet press briefing that the new JUTC board has been charged with reducing the company's losses.

    Mr. Henry said the JUTC was losing $100 million per day. However, Mr. Chambers said that the minister made a mistake. He told The Gleaner that the JUTC has been losing an average of $136 million per month since April.

    In yesterday's release, the JUTC said that it will be placing emphasis on the scheduling and dispatching of buses as it aims to improve service delivery.

    The JUTC was established in 1998 to provide exclusive bus transport services to commuters traveling in the Kingston Metropolitan Transport Region. In 2004 the company operated with a fleet of 614 buses on 68 routes and operated sub-licences on 16 other routes. The current fleet number is between 250 and 300 buses, according to Mr. Henry, who has blamed poor management for the state of the bus service.
    Last edited by Karl; October 11, 2007, 12:27 PM.
    "Jamaica's future reflects its past, having attained only one per cent annual growth over 30 years whilst neighbours have grown at five per cent." (Article)

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    YES!!!!! Things start get serious! Who fi get pack up ... affi get pack up.
    "Jamaica's future reflects its past, having attained only one per cent annual growth over 30 years whilst neighbours have grown at five per cent." (Article)

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    • #3
      Karl, yuh never deh a school wid Ryan White?


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      • #4
        Originally posted by Mosiah View Post
        Karl, yuh never deh a school wid Ryan White?
        Is that the same Ryan White?

        The Ryan White I knew was a nice...but, gruff no nonsense man. Colours - Cricket (Won Headley Cup); Football (Won D'Cup); Hockey (Won Henriques Shield) last I was in contact he was Manager or Managing Director of Hardware & Lumber(?)! ...does not suffer fools lightly!
        Good man!

        ...and, yes we were in 6th form together.
        "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

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        • #5
          Him same one!

          His last position was with ICD Motors, dealers of Benz and Audis, etc.

          He is a doer, so I am hoping that things happen positively for the JUTC.


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          • #6
            Originally posted by Mosiah View Post
            Him same one!

            His last position was with ICD Motors, dealers of Benz and Audis, etc.

            He is a doer, so I am hoping that things happen positively for the JUTC.
            He is good! If he cannot turn it around...then...????
            "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

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            • #7
              Trouble is, he is not exactly a new appointee. He has been at the JUTC for a little while already!


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              • #8
                Originally posted by Lazie View Post
                YES!!!!! Things start get serious! Who fi get pack up ... affi get pack up.
                JUTC chairman to run bus company - White departs after nine months
                published: Friday | November 9, 2007



                This Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) bus falls into a huge pothole in this February file photo. New JUTC chairman Douglas Chambers must wring new efficiencies from a problematic fleet to bring the company into profitability. - File

                Douglas Chambers will run debt-ridden Jamaica Urban Transit Company, until a replacement CEO is recruited.
                The state-run bus company's boss Ryan White is on the way out, and was the last of the top managers to exit in the past few weeks.

                White had been expected to retain his job even with the housekeeping under way at the troubled company, which alongside sugar and the national carrier, is a star among state-financed loss-makers.

                Chambers who has been on a clean-up drive in the weeks since his October appointment as chairman of the state bus company, told the Financial Gleaner he would be taking operational control of JUTC, whose persistent losses are now estimated at an annual $1 billion.

                He is the second of the new board chairs who has had to take on an executive role, the first being Shirley Williams who is in now in charge at Air Jamaica following the departure of Chief Executive Mike Conway after two years at the helm.

                White, a former chief executive of the Issa Transport Group, ran JUTC for nine months, since February 1.

                Chartered accountant
                Chambers, a chartered accountant and principal in the firm Chambers, Henry and Partners, was hand-picked for the job as chairman to help realign the company's finances, a job considered suited to his expertise in forensic analysis.

                Chambers took up the position on a salary of $1, intent on cutting waste and driving efficiencies in a company whose accumulated losses are projected at more than $4 billion this fiscal year, according to figures published by the Finance Ministry.

                The bus company, which transported an estimated 85 million passengers last year, employs approximately 2,700 workers.
                business@gleanerjm.com

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                Ryan got his walking papers?
                Those 5 firings could not save him?
                Just asking!
                "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

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                • #9
                  Chambo is a George's man.

                  Tell yuh seh is a Georgian Govt. LoL

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                  • #10
                    So, him fire di people dem and den step himself?


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