Down­town Own­ers and Mer­chants As­so­ci­a­tion (DO­MA) pres­i­dent Gre­go­ry Aboud says be­tween 15 and 20 per cent of com­muters head­ing in­to the cap­i­tal were late for work yes­ter­day, as the na­tion­wide maxi taxi protest dis­rupt­ed trans­port ser­vices.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia, Aboud warned that the sit­u­a­tion ex­posed long-stand­ing weak­ness­es in Trinidad and To­ba­go’s mo­bil­i­ty sys­tem.

He said the fig­ure was based on an in­for­mal morn­ing as­sess­ment among down­town busi­ness­es and com­muters, with de­lays rang­ing from 30 min­utes to an hour.