The cabinet told taxi drivers that Prime Minister Gaston Browne’s licence rate increase would not affect them, but shocking what the cabinet said was not true.
The Antigua and Barbuda Transit Board released a public notice with the new rates, which slap an additional $250 licence fee for cars and wagons, and an extra $400 on each taxi van.
Taxi drivers were promised that they would be exempt from the huge fee increases.
“So, coming out of the Cabinet it was understood that we would have been exempt knowing that once you carry a taxi plate, you’re paying an extra $400 on your licence,” taxi operator Ian Joseph told the Observer.
“Of course, my members are asking because we had been given the assurance that we would not have been impacted,” Joseph said.
“Well, what is on paper and what we understood before the document came out is not really adding up,” he said.
