PERSONS TRAVELLING to the 2006 Calabash International Literary Festival in Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth, from Kingston will have the option of using the Jamaica Urban Transit Company's (JUTC) direct service.
The presentations at the festival begin in the evening with a reading by actor Delroy Lindo from 'Iron Balloons' at 9:00 p.m. and close at 5:00 p.m. on Sunday after a 30-year anniversary celebration of Bunny Wailer's Blackheart Man album.
The bus service will cover two days of the festival, as Gwyneth Harold of the JUTC said that it leaves the York Plaza in Half-Way Tree at 7:00 a.m. on Saturday, departing from Treasure Beach at midnight. On Sunday departure time is also 7:00 a.m., the service leaving Treasure Beach at 6:00 p.m.
There is the possibility of staying overnight and returning on Sunday.
Harold said this is the JUTC's second venture into providing transportation to festivals, using its air-conditioned, carpeted buses. The first was to the Chukka Cove carnival party and it will continue with a trip to the Denbigh Agricultural Festival in Clarendon.
Tickets are available at the JUTC's York Ticket Centre and YEP in the Pulse complex on Trafalgar Road, as well as Flava Works beside Emancipation Park.
"If persons call us we will deliver anywhere on a JUTC bus route," Davidson said.
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