The Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB) is renewing its call for a comprehensive overhaul of the island’s public transportation system, arguing that longstanding deficiencies are affecting productivity, commuters and national development.

Speaking during CTUSAB’s monthly press conference at its Garrison headquarters, general secretary Dennis DePeiza said unreliable transport services continue to disrupt the lives of workers and the travelling public.

Furthermore, he maintained that privatising the Transport Board would not solve the sector’s problems.