TAXI operators who have been anticipating a 16 per cent fare increase for the past two years were livid on Monday following a meeting with transport and finance authorities who appealed for more time to deliver the unfulfilled commitment.

The taxi operators argued that as prices continue to rise due to ongoing global geopolitical tensions, foremost being the US/Israel war against Iran, another waiting period or a phased allocation of the increase is not welcomed.

“We understand that nobody anticipated a war, but as a result of the war everything that we use — because remember we are out there too, we have families too — everything we use is — and I don’t want to call it raising — the price is accelerating. So, we face it daily,” general secretary of the National Council of Taxi Associations Fredrick Bryan told the Jamaica Observer.