From as ear­ly as 5 am yes­ter­day, maxi taxi dri­vers gath­ered at the Tarou­ba Fly­over to be­gin a mo­tor­cade bound for Port-of-Spain. They would dri­ve at 65 kmh dur­ing the ac­tiv­i­ty, one of sev­er­al is­sues they have with the Min­istry of Trans­port.

The po­lice even­tu­al­ly told the maxi dri­vers that they weren’t al­lowed to gath­er at the fly­over, forc­ing them to de­part ear­li­er than planned. How­ev­er, there were no re­ports of the mo­tor­cade caus­ing a traf­fic dis­rup­tion along the high­way.

Rough­ly 40 maxi taxis took part in the mo­tor­cade, which saw op­er­a­tors dri­ving from Tarou­ba to Port-of-Spain and back to south Trinidad.