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 Thursday the 22th day of June 2023 I reported for duty at 6:00 am, I was briefed accordingly by my supervisor and dispatched on an intelligence driven roving operation that was scheduled to take place on the said day. I was accompanied by fellow inspectors acting covertly, in plain clothes and in a marked vehicle and an unmarked vehicle. One team was tasked with the responsibility of gathering intelligence, this team would be travelling in an unmarked service unit and accompanied by members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force attached to the Transport Authority.  All members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force to include were properly attired in their respective uniforms. My duties for the day entailed inspection of vehicles suspected of operating as PPV without the requisite documents to do so, based on information given team members who were tasked to gather evidence, to ensure compliance as stipulated under the Transport Authority and Road Traffic Acts and Regulations.
I along with the team assigned were travelling along Central Road in the parish of St. Elizabeth. At about 1:00 pm I observed a Toyota Corolla Sedan registration number 1907KQ. The vehicle was going in the same direction.  The driver was observed with his hand outside the window and tooting his horn and pointing in the direction of Luana whenever he was approaching persons along the roadway. I could see clearly as the weather condition was fair and there was nothing obstructing my view. This aroused my suspicion and I pointed this observation to my team members and the supervisor gave the driver of the service unit instructions. We began following the said vehicle. I observed when the vehicle came to a stop and a female entered the motor car in the vicinity of Gas Station. The vehicle continued on to the Black River Primary School where a male passenger was set down and money inclusive of $100 JMD note was exchanged. The driver then began loading children from the Primary school into the vehicle. The vehicle was intercepted by the team at this instance. The Police officers on the team along with myself and other inspectors present approached the vehicle. I cautioned the driver and requested his vehicle documents to include: Road Licence, Motor Vehicle Registration Certificate, Fitness Certificate, Insurance Certificate, Badge and Drivers Licence. The driver refused to produce these documents even at the request of the Police Officers.
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August 28, 2023
Antoinette Thompson
T.A. Route Inspector
There were a total of 5 students present inside the motor car along with the adult female passenger who the driver had picked up at the gas station. They were questioned in the presence of the driver. The female stated that she took the motor car as a taxi and he had already collected her fare of $150 JMD for her destination which would be Luana. The school children also stated that the driver was the one who usually took them to and from school and most of them paid fares of $1000 JMD per week OR $100JMD per day depending on where he transported them from. The parents of those who the arrangements were made with were contacted and another transportation sourced. The driver was informed that the vehicle would be seized for operating without a road licence and no ppv insurance. The adult female was also informed that the vehicle will be seized, the driver in the presence of myself and other inspectors handed her back $150JMD that she had paid and she left.
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 No Public Passenger Vehicle Insurance. I began to prepare a warning notice for the driver and a wrecking service was called. The warning notice was prepared and given to the driver. the driver was asked to visit the Transport Authority Mandeville office between the hours of 8:30am and 3:00pm at his earliest convenience. 
On Wednesday the 28th of June 2023 about 2:15pm, Mr. Anderson visited the Transport Authority Mandeville Office where summonses for no road licence and no ppv insurance were served on Mr. Anderson by Inspector C. Sinclair to appear before the Black River Traffic Court on Thursday September 28th 2023.
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August 28, 2023
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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August 28, 2023