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The Gov­ern­ment has firm­ly dis­missed crit­i­cism over its move to dou­ble the fines for dozens of traf­fic of­fences from Jan­u­ary next year.

Con­tact­ed yes­ter­day, sev­er­al Cab­i­net mem­bers, in­clud­ing Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, de­fend­ed the move, which was an­nounced in a le­gal no­tice pub­lished in the Gazette on Christ­mas Day.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar not­ed that the move would have no im­pact on law-abid­ing cit­i­zens who fol­low road traf­fic laws.