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"Back to the table: Representatives of the JOS [Jamaica Omnibus Services] and UTASP [Union of Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Personnel] came back to the Labour and Employment Ministry yesterday to try and resolve outstanding items of…

"Henry Beckford is seen receiving his cash award and medal for 15 years' safe driving with the JOS. The occasion was JOS fifteenth annual Safe Driving Awards ceremony Sunday night. Guest speaker Aston Preston, centre, Chairman of the Public…

"Some like it hot: Some people will risk the heat of the sun, will stand all the way, just to get about their business. The gentleman at left apparently has not yet arrived at that level of desperation.

Some like it packed. If you get a covered…

"When is a "first bus" not a first bus? When it gets out from the depot too late to begin working at the "first bus" is scheduled to start. JOS spokesmen say that a new system of supervision at their depots is coming to grips with the problem and…

"JOS presenting scholarship cheques."

A Jamaica Omnibus Services (JOS) bus being repaired.

"Broken block: This is a broken cylinder block of a Gardener type engine. The break occurred as a result of water reaching into the cylinder through the air-clean, this de-compressing the chamber and causing the connecting rod to bend and hitting…

"Latest shipment of Leyland National buses for the Jamaica Omnibus Service. Picture was taken at the Industrial Terrace deport of the JOS."

"NAVCO's [National Vehicle Corporation] employees seen in the process of assembling one of the buses used by the Jamaica Omnibus Service Company. NAVCO employs some 70 people, all Jamaicans. They were trained by a leading U.K. - based bus-building…

"One of seventeen new Leyland Nationals which have arrived from England in the past four weeks to join the Jamaica Omnibus Service's fleet, being unloaded from the M.V. Naturalist, at Western Terminals, Newport West, last week. A total of eight…