While disclosing that children in Jamaica are illegally driving vehicles, the country’s Transport and Mining Minister, Audley Shaw, is vowing to put an end to the long-time illegal practice of persons purchasing their driver’s licences.
“We have an unfortunate situation in our country right now, where some people are buying their licences. They’re not taking a test for the driver’s licences, they are buying it,” said Shaw.
The commitment from Shaw was greeted with loud applause among those gathered at Friday’s official launch of York Castle High School’s driver education programme in St Ann.
In elaborating, Shaw said: “It is going to end, because that is part of the problem why so many accidents on the road, and so many deaths on the roads.”
The minister noted that in 2022, some 488 people died from road crashes.
