Rural MP Backs School Bus Programme

Member of Parliament for South West St. Elizabeth, Floyd Green, says he’s looking ahead to September when the government will roll out phase two of its Rural School Bus Programme.

Green says he’s taken aback by the attack the programme has come under from the Opposition PNP.

Mahiri Stewart reports.

Opposition Leader Mark Golding and the PNP’s leader in the Senate, Peter Bunting, have taken flak for their blistering criticism of the government’s plan to transport students in rural Jamaica.

Floyd Green is Chairman of the JLP’s Area Council Four.

He says the rural school bus programme will be welcomed by students and parents in his constituency.

The Opposition dismissed the buses to be used under the programme as decommissioned units from the US school system that are unsuited to the Jamaican terrain.

But Minister Green disagrees.

He says the vehicles are similar to those buses that carried him and hundreds of others to and from school during his time at Munro College.