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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 fighting, with people being stabbed in the area.
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With schools set to reopen from April 12, the Alliance Owners of Public Transport (AOPT) is pushing for students to return in a safe and healthy environment.
Speaking to the media at the presentation ceremony of 50 sanitisation dispensers from the Barbados Light and Power (BL&P), in Cheapside Terminal, AOPT director, Craig Banfield called for concise guidelines in the next Emergency Management COVID-19 Directives.
Banfield stressed that the Attorney General, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health must consult with the transportation sector on how to manage the safety of minors that take public transport . I am hoping in the next Emergency Management COVID-19 Directive, 2021, that we will have a new directive in which the management of school children will be placed in a top priority. There is a need for guidance of school children in general . . . . The safety of minors in this country is critical; to the majority of children that take public transport, Banfield sai
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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.
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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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