Jamaican German Auto School (JAGAS Auto Clinic)

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Jamaican German Auto School (JAGAS Auto Clinic)

The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) and the HEART Trust/NTA will spend a combined total of $284 million to establish a world-class heavy-duty vehicle repair and training facility at the bus company’s Lyndhurst Road depot.

Under the partnership, auto-mechanics will be trained by the HEART Trust/NTA’s Jamaican-German Automotive School (JAGAS), to rehabilitate defunct buses owned by the JUTC.

Chairman of the JUTC, Dr. Garnett Roper, said the partnership is expected to save the state-owned bus company millions of dollars.

Dr. Roper was speaking on September 4 at the launch of the training programme, which will see the first cohort of 25 auto-mechanics commencing training this month at JAGAS.

He informed that the programme was conceptualised as a cheaper alternative to the proposal of sending the buses to Brazil for rehabilitation.

Under the initiative, the HEART Trust/NTA will spend $80 million to upgrade the Lyndhurst Road depot for the establishment of the heavy-duty vehicle repair, refurbishment, and advanced training facility.

For its part, the JUTC will expend almost $204 million to furnish the project site with the required sophisticated heavy duty equipment and tools, sourced from Europe.

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