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JOS bus strike - Cross Roads

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"Cross Roads at 8:55am and not a bus in sight. Commuters look around hopefully for the other means of transportation, and wait and wait but that was yesterday. Today the buses will be back."

Health Centre on King Street

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"Ailing bus: a number of people were injured Thursday afternoon when this JOS bus crashed into the Health Centre on King Street. The bus was packed with people many of whom were coming from matinees."

Road accident on Half Way Tree Road

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"The people in this picture probably smiled for our photographer because no one was injured in this accident yesterday. Reports said the Mini was entering Half Way Tree Road from West Ivy Green Crescent when it got out of control and ran into the…

Bus wash

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"The JOS has embarked on a campaign to keep the few vehicles on the road clean and to keep their working area clean. Here a bus get its daily wash at the sophisticated automatic washer at Tivoli."

JOS Leyland National bus on fire

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"Half Way Tree firemen at work yesterday afternoon after this JOS Leyland National Bus caught on fire along Old Hope Road about 12:15 pm. When driver Norman Durrant was alerted by another motorist that there was fire at the back of the bus, the…

JOS bus in Kingston

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Commuters lined up outside a Jamaica Omnibus Services bus in Kingston.

Four-vehicle crash

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"Crunch: Two of the buses involved in the four-vehicle smash up yesterday on Half way Tree Road. "

Strike at Cross Roads police station

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"J.O.S. workers and city commuters pictured outside the Cross Roads Police Station yesterday after the workers went on a wild-cat strike claiming police beat up a driver."

Jamaica Omnibus Service buses

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"Phasing out - the familiar "Jolly Joseph" on the streets of Kingston will be going out of business if present plans are carried through to finality. Its franchise will be shared up."