The Alliance Owners of Public Transport (AOPT) is questioning Government over its seeming inability to allow the association’s members to import disabled-friendly electric public service vehicles (PSVs).

“We are hoping to give persons with disabilities greater access to our vehicles. We are still waiting on the Ministry of Energy to okay the $3 million for us as we wait to buy those electric buses. Right now, we have around 15 people applying for the energy loan and five persons were approved so far to bring in electric buses, but we can’t get any further,” AOPT chairman Roy Raphael said in a telephone interview.

He explained that part of the reason for this was also due to internal issues within a lending institution which was supposed to sign off on the deal.