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 Tuesday the 10th day of January 2023 I reported for duty at 6:30 am, I was briefed accordingly by my supervisor and dispatched on a roving operation that was scheduled to take place on the said day. I was accompanied by other Transport Authority inspectors including inspector A. Roper. The team was in an unmarked service unit.  All members of the Transport Authority were properly attired in our respective uniforms. My duties for the day entailed inspection of vehicles to ensure compliance as stipulated under the Transport Authority and Road Traffic Acts and Regulations. 
 About 7:34 am whilst roving along the Ashley main road in the parish of Clarendon, I observed a Grey Toyota Probox registration number 9102KL, the vehicle was driving slowly away from the vicinity of the square. The driver was observed tooting his horn to persons along the road-way and pointing in the Rock Road direction. This aroused my suspicion and I called it to the attention of my team members and supervisor. My supervisor then gave the driver of the service unit certain instructions and we began following the vehicle at a safe distance. I observed when the vehicle upon nearing the exit for the Ashley community, pulled over and picked up two school children in grey uniform that identified them as students from the Four Paths Primary school. He continued on to pick up students in Denbigh High school uniforms further in the Rock community square. The driver then proceeded towards Rock Road where a man with a box and a market bag was picked up. 
After reaching the Four Paths Square the vehicle came to a stop where the students from the Four Paths Primary School exited the vehicle and handed over monies inclusive of one hundred dollars JMD notes. I was sitting at the front passenger seat of the service unit and there was nothing obstructing my view, I could see that these were the same students he had picked up earlier near the exit of the Ashley community. The driver of the Toyota Probox motor car, again began soliciting passengers and the vehicle was intercepted as soon as another female student from the Denbigh high school entered the motor vehicle. Inspector A. Roper and I exited the service unit at the same time and approached the driver and passengers. I introduced myself to the driver who was still seated around the steering and passengers present in the motor car. I cautioned the driver and then informed him of my observations, the driver did not refute.  I questioned the children from the Four Paths Primary School, they stated that the monies handed over was $150.00JMD each for their fares for the journey and that they knew him as a taxi driver because he has brought them on several occasions, in the presence and hearing of the driver. The driver was instructed to exit the vehicle after which he exited the vehicle.
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January 20, 2023
Antoinette Thompson
T.A. Route Inspector
Whilst interacting with the driver, he was asked if he had indeed taken monies amounting to $150 from the school children, he responded, “Yes, and sometimes me take $100.” I informed him that the team was observing him from a distance the minute he took up the Primary School Children in the Ashley community. I also informed him that I Observed when he picked up the gentleman along Rock Road. Whilst interacting with the driver, my colleague inspector A. Roper spoke to the other passengers to include the school children from the Denbigh High School. I Observed when the said gentleman in a grey shirt which the driver had picked up on Rock Road, being the only adult inside the vehicle, in the presence of myself and other inspectors he handed over the amount of $200JMD to the driver. I asked the man in the presence of the driver, why he handed over monies to the driver and to confirm how much it was, to which he answered “A 2 bills mi gi him fi di fare.” The students who attended the Denbigh high school who were picked up in the Rock community square, were still aboard the same vehicle. When I spoke to them they stated they had not yet paid their fares. They knew each other because they lived near to one another and often travel to school together. They would normally pay fares amounting to $150.00JMD to the driver, he was known to them, because he took them to school at times.  
The documents for the same vehicle were requested by inspector A. Roper. The documents were handed to me. The driver based on his driver’s licence was identified to be Renford Carty of Ashley District, Ashley, Clarendon. He was also the owner of the motor car, he stated, “mi aguh put it ina di system enuh but mi nuh get fi duh it yet”. He was advised that he would have to visit the Swansea Satellite Office on or after Tuesday the 10th day of January 2023 with his driver’s licence and vehicle documents, where he could start the process to get a Public Passenger Vehicle Road Licence. 
I cautioned the driver and informed him of the offences of 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. No PPV insurance In Contravention of section 4 (1) of the Motor Vehicle (Third Party Risk) Law. A wrecking service was called.  The driver stated “mi a beg yuh a chance, life hard enuh, mi only deh a Jamaica one or two times fi di year a farm work mi mostly guh up pon, suh it not even really mek nu sense fi apply fi di vehicle and have it park up a yard.” The vehicle was taken to the Transport Authority Swansea Satellite Office and Pound. 
 On Tuesday the 10th day of January 2023 at about 9:00 am Mr. Renford Carty visited the Swansea Satellite office, Clarendon. Summonses for Operating without a Road Licence and No PPV insurance that were prepared, were signed and sealed my Justice of the Peace Mrs.  D. Roye and served on Mr. Carty by me to appear before the May Pen Traffic Court on Wednesday March 22, 2023. 
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January 20, 2023
Antoinette Thompson
T.A. Route Inspector
This statement consists of __ page(s) 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 20, 2023