ITA head urges parents to use certified driving instructors

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Director General of Road Traffic, Island Traffic Authority (ITA), Lieutenant Colonel Sheldon Bryan, is encouraging parents and guardians to use certified instructors or driving schools to teach their children to drive.

He indicated that licensed parents and guardians can also legally train their children to drive, provided no fee or payment is involved.

“The law does give room for persons to instruct members of their family how to drive. But the reality is that a lot of persons learn how to drive by trial and error or by not going through the proper processes. So there’s a lot of bad habits in some of these instances, not all of them, because you do have people who know how to drive properly and are instructing children,” he told JIS News.