Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has in­sist­ed that maxi taxi op­er­a­tors have no jus­ti­fi­ca­tion for in­creas­ing fares, de­spite the Gov­ern­ment’s de­ci­sion to dou­ble the toll for use of the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route (PBR) from Jan­u­ary 1, 2026.

The quar­ter­ly fee has risen from $300 to $600, a move that has drawn crit­i­cism from the Route 2 Maxi Taxi As­so­ci­a­tion. Its pres­i­dent, Bren­ton Knights, de­scribed the in­crease as a “uni­lat­er­al” de­ci­sion and warned that dri­vers are prepar­ing for “strong re­sis­tance.”

How­ev­er, the Prime Min­is­ter main­tains that the in­crease is neg­li­gi­ble and should not be passed on to com­muters.