WHAT IS NAT DIS??

DWAYNE McLEOD, Staff Reporter
Bad behaving students from a number of Corporate Area institutions, who once targeted coaster buses, have taken their misconduct and sexually explicit acts to tinted Jamaica Urban Transit Company buses, THE STAR has heard.

Pressure from the police who demand that tints be removed from coaster buses, has now led to students to seek another mode of transportation which will accommodate their lewd acts, which includes a ‘no panty’ day when female students wear no underwear while travelling with their peers on the new-found source of ‘joyrides’.

“A di new joyride, a di in-thing now since wah day yah. Everybody who seh dem inna hype crowd a par pon JUTC bus dem now and do dem thing. Dem stop work wid di coaster dem because dem nuh tint up again suh dem cyaa carry on how dem want,” a 16-year-old sixth-form female student of a prominent high school in St Andrew told THE STAR during a visit to downtown Kingston on Tuesday.

Subsequent checks with other students and even drivers and conductors who operate coaster buses downtown found similar claims.

“Our coaster dem naw seh nuttin again, a di tint bus dem di schoolas dem a rush now. Pure thing mi hear dem a gwaan wid pon dem now,” Gilly, a driver who plies the downtown to Constant Spring route said.

In Half-Way Tree, St Andrew, others spoke of the smutty activities which the students are said to be partaking in on the buses. It was said that they travel in groups and flock the back of the bus.

wining and grinding

It is there that they carry on with their antics and in cases are said to even have sex, or come pretty close to it. Despite no music being on the buses, the the students carry on as if they are in a dancehall venue, wining and grinding on each other while singing the latest dancehall songs, some of which are not fit for airplay.

“A crazy thing wi hear a gwaan pon di JUTC bus dem ya now. A pure crew a lock di bus dem so nobody else cyaa go roun’ a di back. A roun’ a di back dem gwaan wid dem nastiness. Pure feel up feel up, girl a wine pon boy, boy a wine pon girl and pure tings, dem a gwaan bad man,” a vendor who plies her wares close to the transport centre said.

“Dem have all special day when di girl dem inna di crew nuh wear nuh panty eno,” another 16-year-old student added.

When contacted, Reginald Allen, JUTC director of communications, dubbed the claims ‘teenage hype’, saying he has never come across such reports.

“I have never heard a report, never heard a driver say anything like that, never heard it on the street. There has never been a report,” Allen said.

He, however, admitted that the dark tints on some of the buses posed a problem and went on to tell THE STAR that a solution is on course. “Some of the tints are too dark, they are darker than allowed and yes this is quite a challenge to be rectified, but a solution is soon in the making.”

Director of communications at the Ministry Of Education, Colin Blair told THE STAR that the new development had not yet reached his ears either, but did not rule out its occurrence.

When asked about if he had heard of the students bad behaviour he replied, “That’s not bad, that’s very bad. I haven’t heard of it as yet but I’m not saying it isn’t happening, I will have to make some checks on my side,” he said.

Police sources on the other hand say they have heard talk of the happenings, but added that investigations would also have to be done before anything could be said about it.