Transport minister, Daryl Vaz, is expressing fears that the 110 buses to be used in the rural school bus programme could be sabotaged by those opposed to the roll out.

The minister expressed the fear during an online question and answer session with Nationwide’s Ricardo Brooks.

His comments come amid the People’s National Party’s, PNP, escalating criticism of the rural bus programme.

On Thursday, councillors in the St. James Municipal Corporation clashed over the programme. Minority leader in the corporation, the PNP’s Michael Troupe, told the meeting he has a wrecker on standby for when the buses go out of service.

When pressed to justify the concern, Minister Vaz says his fear is grounded in previous acts of vandalism against buses ordered for the state-run Jamaica Urban Transit Company, JUTC.

Daryl Vaz, transport minister.