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 and attached to the Swansea Satellite Office, Osbourne Store, Clarendon. My duties as an Inspector include the monitoring and regulating of public passenger vehicles and prosecuting for breaches of the relevant Road Traffic enactments. 
On Friday the 12th day of May 2023 I reported for duty at 10:00 am, I was briefed accordingly by my supervisor and dispatched on an enforcement 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’s documents and drivers to ensure compliance as stipulated under the Transport Authority and Road Traffic Acts and Regulations. 
I along with the team assigned were conducting vehicle stop and inspection along Sandy Bay Main Road in the parish of Clarendon.  At about 3:50 pm my attention was drawn to a Toyota Coaster registration number 3958KP coming toward my direction. I executed the number one signal to stop and pull over to which the driver complied. I approached the vehicle, and I cautioned the driver. I introduced myself and noticed the vehicle was heavily laden with school children from the St. Andrew Technical High School and adults later identified as teachers. I asked the driver if he was operating to which he stated “yes,” I then requested his vehicle documents to include: Road Licence, Motor Vehicle Registration Certificate, Fitness Certificate, Insurance Certificate, Badge and Drivers Licence. It was revealed that he did not have a Road licence. From his Driver’s Licence he was identified as Andre Rhoden of Clarks Hill, Stony Hill, St. Andrew. 
I was able to identify the passengers as paying passengers by questioning them in the presence of the driver, a male teacher by the name of Mr. Clarke informed me that he paid monies of $25,000 JMD to the driver for a charter to take the school students and teachers to a 4H expo that took place on that day. 
The driver produced all his documents except a road licence or a valid insurance. Based on the documents produced he did not have a road licence to operate. Checks were also made to the licencing department at the Transport Authority which also confirmed that there was no Road Licence issued for this vehicle. I cautioned the driver and informed him of the offences and that he would be prosecuted for operating without a Road Licence in contravention of section 61 (1) & (4A) of the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act 2005, Contrary to section 13 (2) (a) (v) of the Transport Authority (Amendment) Act 2005 and Operating as a PPV without PPV insurance. I informed the driver that even with an application being made he could not operate until a Road Licence was issued.
Summonses were prepared and served accordingly for the offences of operating without a road licence and no PPV insurance to appear before the May Pen Traffic Court on Wednesday June 28, 2023. The summonses were read over to Mr. Rhoden who accepted and left.
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May 30, 2023
Antoinette Thompson
T.A. Route Inspector
This statement consists of __ 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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May 30, 2023