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Trans­port Com­mis­sion­er Clive Clarke has an­nounced sweep­ing re­forms aimed at mod­ernising dri­ver test­ing, reg­u­lat­ing dri­ving schools, and strength­en­ing over­sight of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s li­cens­ing sys­tem, amid grow­ing con­cerns over the ef­fi­cien­cy and in­tegri­ty of the na­tion’s traf­fic man­age­ment frame­work.

Clarke made the dis­clo­sures yes­ter­day dur­ing a Joint Se­lect Com­mit­tee (JSC) in­quiry ex­am­in­ing the ef­fec­tive­ness of traf­fic man­age­ment across sev­er­al state port­fo­lios, in­clud­ing trans­port, pub­lic util­i­ties, hous­ing, agri­cul­ture, ma­rine re­sources, land, and works.

Re­spond­ing to a ques­tion from com­mit­tee mem­ber Chris­t­ian Birch­wood about whether the cur­rent sys­tem ad­e­quate­ly eval­u­ates dri­vers, Clarke said the Li­cens­ing Di­vi­sion has al­ready im­ple­ment­ed new mech­a­nisms to mon­i­tor per­mit is­suance and test­ing pro­ce­dures.