And while the Minister has his hands full with the bus owners, he has help in the form of his CEO, the former Commissioner of Police. We asked him how that's going so far and he says that he's asked Chester Williams to handle the enforcement side of the ministry's work.
Dr Louis Zabaneh, Minister of Transport
"I'm very happy that he's with us. I've asked him to focus on the enforcement side, where he has a great skillset and the training of our transport officers, very important as well. He's very excited about that, already working on putting some training programs together. We need a lot of discipline within our ministry. By the way, we're uncovering quite a bit of things, we have the DPP looking at certain things for us because of potential theft and all that that has been occurring. So we've said to our people, listen we appreciate all of you that you have the potential, you now show yourself as being committed to your job, do the best that you can and we will support you. But if we find you doing anything that's out of line, we will follow our procedures and at the point when we need to get rid of you we will, because we want people who are there for the right reasons, working together, having integrity. When you're standing out there at the checkpoints, it's not because you're setting it up so you can shake people down, it's for you to go and do your job, go and find out indeed. Another thing CEO Williams is doing, having a 24 hour cycle because people are traveling at night too and that's where you catch a lot of them with all kinds of lights or no lights at all, the whole issue with motorcycles and 3, 4 persons on the motorcycles, kids, all these things. So we're asking the public - the public is asking for these changes but we're asking the public to be prepared for when the changes start that we get the support from you, that when we start to stop these people and taking action it's so we understand it's for the welfare of everybody."
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