Behave on the roads! PM says she may reduce fines in 6 months if motorists comply with laws
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January 3, 2026Chester Sambrano
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Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has pledged to reduce road traffic fines later this year if road deaths and other serious road offences decline.
On Thursday (January 1), amendments to the Ninth Schedule of the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act took effect. It meant increases in a majority of traffic offences, most of them by 100 per cent.
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