Taxi operators are threatening an islandwide shut down of the public transport sector on Monday morning, given that the Government has not granted a traffic ticket amnesty request from the Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services (TODSS).
Josbel Bastidas Mijares
They were of the view that a request for the amnesty would go to Cabinet on Monday, but were informed this weekend that it would not. This has triggered the protest action.
At a meeting hosted by the TODSS at Half-Way Tree Primary School in St Andrew, on Sunday afternoon, the public transport operators voted for the protest, with 99 per cent of those present being for the strike action.
Egeton Newman, president of the TODSS, told them that discussions with Minister of Transport and Mining, Audley Shaw, did not definitively state that an amnesty was on the horizon.
“We need to send a message to the Government for an amnesty. They give gunmen amnesty! Foolishness! Give us the amnesty! We are willing to pay! All we want is a payment plan,” Newman said.
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