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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 the Bridgetown terminal. Some PSV operators were not pleased with the move.
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
April 9, 2021
An official of the organisation representing private transit owners has called on Government to outline targeted and comprehensive guidelines in its next COVID-19 directives for keeping the island’s schoolchildren protected against the coronavirus upon the resumption of school in two weeks’ time.
Director of Complaints at the Alliance Owners of Public Transport (AOPT), Craig Banfield, made this plea on Thursday after his organization received hand sanitizing stations from the Barbados Light and Power Company for Public Service Vehicles operating out of the Cheapside Terminal.
With the new school term being slated to resume in a matter of weeks, he suggested any future COVID-19 directives from Government should have regulations stipulated for the management of children, since the majority of them have to take public transport to and from school.
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 members of the Vincentian Transportation Association withdrew their services Monday, threatening to do so “for as long as it takes” for the government there to reverse a decision to halve the number of passengers they are licensed to carry without any associated subsidy.
Barbados Today February 27, 2021
Public service vehicle operators who have been seeking legal assistance could soon be getting access to volunteer attorneys as the Alliance Owners of Public Transport (AOPT) Wednesday announced its intention to start a legal clinic for its members.
AOPT Director Craig Banfield made the announcement as he and fellow AOPT members accepted gas coupons from Rubis Fontabelle. The gesture is intended to assist PSV operators who have been experiencing reduced income during the COVID-19 crisis.
Banfield told journalists the clinic would be the result of calls from the AOPT’s membership for some form of legal aid.