Name: Antoinette Thompson
Address: Swansea Satellite Office, Osbourne Store, Clarendon
Occupation: Route Inspector
Telephone #: 618-0959
Antoinette Thompson States,
I am a gazetted Route Inspector since November 1, 2019 employed to the Transport Authority. I am attached to the Swansea Satellite Office of the Transport Authority with  jurisdiction in the parishes of Manchester, Clarendon and St. Elizabeth.  My duties as an Inspector includes the monitoring and regulating of public passenger vehicles and prosecuting for breaches of the relevant Road Traffic enactments
On Monday the 6th day of November 2023, I reported for duty at 6:00am. I was briefed accordingly by my supervisor and dispatched on a targeted summons operation that was scheduled to take place on the said day. I was accompanied by fellow inspectors, members of the Jamaica Constabulary force attached to the transport authority and a Justice of the Peace for the Parish of Clarendon. All members of the Transport authority and Jamaica Constabulary force were properly attired in our respective uniforms. My duties for the day entailed inspection of PPV documents and drivers to ensure compliance as stipulated under the Transport Authority and Road Traffic Acts and Regulations. Information was received via the transport authority communications department about driver’s on the May Pen to Old Harbour route overcharging passengers especially students.
I along with the team assigned were standing along Free Town in the parish of Clarendon. At about 2:04pm I observed a Grey Toyota Probox registration number PN0963 coming toward my direction. I executed the number one signal to stop which the driver complied to and I approached. I cautioned the driver asked if he was operating, to which he stated “yes,” and I requested his vehicle documents to include Road Licence, Motor Vehicle Registration Certificate, Fitness Certificate, Insurance Certificate, Badge and Driver’s Licence. The driver produced all documents except his road licence. From his driver’s licence, he was identified as Andre Jones of Monymusk Compound, Lionel Town, Clarendon.
Destination markings for the May Pen to Old Harbour route were on the front doors of the motor car. He was wearing his prescribed uniform. There was no off duty/chartered sign affixed. Four Old Harbour High School student passengers who were identified to be paying passengers were present in the car. I questioned the driver and passengers and asked if the students had paid fares and hey stated yes, when asked the amount for the fare, the students stated they paid fares of $150 JMD each for their journey from Old Harbour and they would be coming off at Savannah Cross. The driver was again cautioned and asked if he knew the amount for the fare. To which he admitted that even though he knew the correct fare to collect for the students was $120 JMD. He had to collect $150 because he has always been charging $150 and that he “had to take gas into consideration.” I informed the driver that by law students in uniform paid half of the adult fare. I informed the driver that the established fare for adults was $240. Therefore, the student should be paying $120 for their fares. I informed the driver that by charging the students $150 and not $120 h was committing an offence and that he would be prosecuted for unlawfully deceiving passengers as to the fare for a journey.
A summons was prepared and served accordingly to appear before the May Pen Traffic Court on Wednesday January 24, 2024. The summons was read over to Mr. Jones who accepted and left.
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January 8, 2024
Antoinette Thompson
T.A. Route Inspector
This statement consists of one page signed by me is true to the best of my knowledge and belief and I make it knowing if it is tendered into evidence. I shall be liable to prosecution if I have willfully stated into it anything, which I know to be false or do not believe to be true. 
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January 8, 2024