Jamaica's Olympic gold medallist, sprinter Michael Frater, will be among scores of competitors at the newly constructed JamWest Speedway in Little London, Westmoreland, today. This is the second day of competition, after yesterday's qualifying.
As the peak of the 2012 Christmas season approaches, some 2007 vehicles offered by used-car dealers across the island have been attracting individual discounts or are being offered at reduced prices.
This is the second in Automotives' series on taxi drivers' experiences with criminals, where they have been in extreme danger and somehow made it through to tell the tale.
The connection between the Jamaica Rent-a-Car Association (JARACA) and the tourism industry was emphasised repeatedly at JARACA's 42nd annual general meeting and luncheon.
Officially, Joe Ferreira is director of New Markets for Metis Motors, the Hope Road-based importers of the Tata Nano. And he does a good enough job of showing Automotives some of the Tata Nano's finer features in the Gleaner's parking lot.
If the Peter Clarke-led Jamaica Millennium Motoring Club (JMMC) administration has its way, significant changes will be effected next year to improve rallying in Jamaica.
Managing director of Grennell's Driving School, Alphonso Grennell, is continuing with plans for next year's staging of the Grennell's Road Safety 5K. This despite the poor turnout to the inaugural event on November 17 and the shortfall in the intended revenue.
Every time a taxi operator picks up a passenger he or she does not know or responds to a call from a strange address, it is possible that they will face danger.
Family-operated business Stewart's Auto Sales on Thursday dedicated and unveiled its brand-new Suzuki showroom, stocked with the Suzuki Kizashi, Suzuki Swift Sport and the Suzuki Celero models.
Plagued by a series of misfortunes, Jamaica's young go-karters bowed out of action on Friday in the preliminary rounds of the World Karting Championship, which concludes in Portugal today.
Today, there are two Tata Nano motor cars in Jamaica. By Friday, there should be 10 more of what has been touted as the world's cheapest new car in the island.
It has been almost a year since Lasco Financial Services launched Jamaica's first - and only - drive-through cambio at its 29 Red Hills Road, St Andrew, head office. Marketing officer at the location, Matthew Blake, attributed Lasco's ability to facilitate the cambio to the size of its premises, which proved the competitive edge eventually resulting in their monopoly of the niche drive-through market.
It's a case of ridicule turned to admiration where Michael Archer and his new transportation are concerned. The Top Mountain, St Catherine community's change in attitude revolves around a derelict aeroplane which Archer modified to be driven on six wheels, powered by a Ford V8 engine.
Despite tense moments, 12-year-old Joshua Sirgany entered the annals of go-karting history as one of the youngest karters to have won the country's Driver of the Year title and the Abe Ziadie Memorial Trophy.
Jamaica's contingent to the Rotax World Karting Championship in Portugal, starting this Wednesday, departed the island last Thursday afternoon. Thomas Issa and Collin Daley Jr will be taking on the world.
Blind musicians Robert Lawson and his friend Lenworth Duffus have found themselves among the group of lay preachers now banned from using the state-owned Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) system to spread the gospel.
The go-kart fraternity continues to recognise Abe Ziadie's outstanding contribution to the development of the sport, as today the Jamaica Karting Association (JKA) will be staging the Abe Ziadie Memorial Race Meet at the Palisadoes International Raceway, Kingston.
He was standing in the audience in Guyana, busy taking snapshots of some of the patrons, when he heard his name over the sound system. For a moment two Saturdays ago, Robert Samms froze in his tracks. Then came the shocker.
"A group of individuals who own BMW vehicles but also, as the name suggests, our cars are not normal. We have done a little bit of improvements, modifications to make them a little bit more hype or unique." This statement from vice-president Sowande McKenzie was in response to Automotives' question about the BMW Innovation Club
