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Supervisor at Rubis Fontabelle Shenika Clarke (third right) presenting the vouchers to St Clair Bynoe (second left) and Winston Lowe (third left). Looking on from AOPT are Craig Banfield (left), Mark A Haynes (second right) and president Roy Raphael (right). (Picture by Reco Moore.) Social Share
The Alliance Owners of Public Transport (AOPT) is calling for an ease in insurance rates and a subsidy.
Members also want a ticketing system which they say would ease some of the backlog in court.
Yesterday during a handover of Rubis gas vouchers, president Roy Raphael said it was time insurance companies stepped up.
AOPT in appeal for help, slams Govt over COVID relief
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Most public service vehicles (PSVs) will be off the road today and tomorrow as the two major associations have joined hands in protest.
They are saying the sector has felt disrespected for too long and it was time for Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley to sit at the table with them.
“We play a significant role in society but we feel sidelined and ostracised. We contribute to the country’s GDP [gross domestic product] and if we are to go forward as a nation, we need to either be made part of the Social Partnership or at the very least, we should be able to meet with the Prime Minister,” said communications and marketing officer of the Alliance Owners of Public Transport (AOPT), Mark Haynes, last night.
February 4, 2021
Commuters can expect at least a 20 per cent reduction in the number of privately-owned public service vehicles (PSV) on the road over the next two weeks, Roy Raphael, Chairman of the Alliance Owners of Public Transport (AOPT), has told
Barbados TODAY.
Following the announcement of a lockdown, several PSV owners indicated that it would not make sense for them to work, he said.
The requirement for them to operate at a maximum of 60 per cent capacity meant that many of them on several routes would be making a major loss, especially since many business places would be closed, Raphael claimed.
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Public service vehicle (PSV) operators say it is only fair that they too get financial assistance during the two-week national pause starting on Wednesday.
This is the appeal the Alliance Owners of Public Transport (AOPT) is making to Government in the wake of other workers in different sectors being offered aid.
Communications and marketing officer Mark A. Haynes said PSV workers would be put at a disadvantage and should be liable to receive some money.
“COVID-19 has bitten us bitterly in terms of our finances and when we return to 60 per cent capacity, it would further put a dent in the sector and we have to brace ourselves for that,” he said during a press conference held at Bank Hall Plaza, St Michael, on Saturday.
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