{"id":3573,"date":"2017-11-07T14:49:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T19:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectcalls.com\/?p=3573"},"modified":"2017-11-07T14:49:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T19:49:02","slug":"jutc-rejects-claim-it-awarded-50m-contract-to-company-of-board-members-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/jutc-rejects-claim-it-awarded-50m-contract-to-company-of-board-members-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"JUTC Rejects Claim It Awarded $50m Contract To Company Of Board Member&#8217;s Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) is refuting claims by the Opposition that it has awarded a multi-million dollar contract to an entity connected to one of its board members.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Opposition spokesman on transport, Mikael Phillips, has claimed the JUTC\u2019s board has awarded an over $50 million contract to a company in which the brother of a member of the board has an interest.<\/p>\n<p>The contract is reportedly for the provision of property loss and recovery assessment services, accident investigation, damage assessment, disciplinary hearings for all workers and security at all depots and other JUTC properties.<\/p>\n<p>Phillips says the entire board should resign over the matter.<\/p>\n<p>He also wants the contractor general to launch a full-scale investigation into the award and for Transport Minister Mike Henry to say whether the contract was taken to the Cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 <a href=\"http:\/\/jamaica-gleaner.com\/article\/news\/20171025\/jutc-rejects-claim-it-awarded-50m-contract-company-board-members-brother\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Image:\u00a0 DigJamaica\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) is refuting claims by the Opposition that it has awarded a multi-million dollar contract to an entity connected to one of its board members&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":3648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[112],"tags":[124,146,71,113],"class_list":["post-3573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-newsdevelopments","tag-jamaica","tag-procedures","tag-procurement","tag-tenders"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/JUTC-Buses-diGJamaica.jpg?fit=1280%2C848&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-VD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3577,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/jutc-probe-contractor-general-investigating-allegations-of-procurement-breach\/","url_meta":{"origin":3573,"position":0},"title":"JUTC Probe &#8211; Contractor General Investigating Allegations Of Procurement Breach","author":"Michele Marius","date":"November 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"For the last four months, the Office of the Contractor General has been conducting a probe into the Jamaica Urban Transit Company Limited's (JUTC) engagement of Millennium Security Limited (MSL) to provide services to the state-owned bus company, Dirk Harrison revealed yesterday. 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