Judiciary sets two-day Kingston and St Andrew traffic ticket public day for July

Motorists with outstanding traffic tickets in Kingston and St Andrew will have the opportunity to resolve their matters outside of the normal court process when the judiciary hosts a two-day Traffic Ticket Public Day in July.

The event is scheduled for Wednesday, July 8 and Thursday, July 9, at the National Arena, with registration opening today and closing at midnight on May 31, according to a statement issued on Tuesday. 

Persons with tickets issued between February 1, 2018 and 2026 are eligible to participate. The judiciary is urging motorists to take advantage of the structured forum before warrants are executed against them.
 

Chief Justice  Justice Bryan Sykes said the scale of the problem in the Corporate Area demanded a deliberate response.

"The volume of outstanding matters within Kingston and St Andrew has reached a level that necessitates decisive and coordinated intervention," Sykes said. 
 

He added that the initiative represents "a measured and pragmatic approach to restoring equilibrium within the system, while reinforcing the principle that adherence to the law is mandatory and that breaches must be addressed with due dispatch and procedural integrity."

The judiciary described the public day as a strategic intervention designed to address the persistent backlog of traffic cases while advancing access to justice and promoting orderly court administration.

The Kingston and St Andrew event follows a similar exercise held in St Catherine on March 4. 

Approximately 1.2 million traffic tickets that were issued between January 2018 and January this year remained outstanding up to March 25 this year, the Court Administration Division revealed to The Gleaner in March. 

St Andrew (326,578), St Catherine (216,318), St Ann (109,881), St James (105,134) and Kingston (103,631) accounted for over 70 per cent of the outstanding tickets. 

CAD also disclosed that $22.8 million was collected from 6,139 tickets during the Traffic Ticket Day at the St Catherine Parish Court.

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