AKASH SAMA­ROO

For­mer Trans­port Min­is­ter Jack Warn­er is urg­ing the Gov­ern­ment to re­ject calls by some maxi taxi op­er­a­tors to in­crease the high­way speed lim­it for maxi taxis from 65 kilo­me­tres per hour to 80 km/h, ar­gu­ing that the in­dus­try must first demon­strate it can con­sis­tent­ly com­ply with the ex­ist­ing law.

Warn­er weighed in on one of the key de­mands raised by maxi taxi op­er­a­tors dur­ing this week’s in­dus­tri­al ac­tion, which dis­rupt­ed pub­lic trans­porta­tion ser­vices across Trinidad and left many com­muters strand­ed.