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Social Share Chairman of the Alliance Owners of Public Transport (AOPT) Roy Raphael is calling on the Transport Authority to urgently address their security concerns at the Cheapside Terminal in Bridgetown. “We would have spoken to the past board and this present board about the Cheapside Terminal about the . . . . security risk it presents to persons using the terminal. We also advised them that every terminal should have security and it does not. Those passengers and workers who are using the terminal ought to have security,” he said. Raphael described it as having issues relating to...

Article by Social Share The clean-up of the Cheapside Terminal in St Michael is underway, says director of the Transport Authority Ruth Holder. She gave that update on Thursday morning following complaints from drivers and the Alliance Owners of Public Transport (AOPT). “It’s in an untidy state, similar to what the country is going through right now. This is not anything that is peculiar to Cheapside but we are making our best efforts to get it correct and rectified,” Holder said. Holder was speaking after AOPT Chairman Roy Raphael and director of complaints Craig Banfield also vi...

Article by AOPT director of complaints Craig Banfield (left) and chairman Roy Raphael looking at the new signage as Ministry of Transport and Works personnel complete their work in the background. - (Picture by Jameel Springer.) Social Share The Alliance Owners of Public Transport (AOPT) will be writing Government seeking clarification over the erection of lane demarcations and signage in the Cheapside public service vehicle (PSV) terminal. On Thursday morning, workers from the Ministry of Transport and Works were erecting signs with lane numbers and route lists, located to the top of ...

PSV operators back regional counterparts Article by March 11, 2021 The Barbados chapter of the Regional Transport Association (RTA) is throwing its full support behind omnibus operators in St Vincent and the Grenadines for withdrawing their services for the second time in as many weeks over COVID-19 protocols in that country. Spokesperson for the group Roy Raphael, Chairman of the Alliance Owners of Public Transport (AOPT), told Barbados TODAY he will be setting up a meeting with regional public service vehicle (PSV) member organisations to discuss the matter. Some member...

Article by Carlos Atwell 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 Raph...