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Gov’t Official Invites East Line Bus Drivers To Meeting During Protest

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BASSETERRE, St.Kitts (Monday 15th March 2021)- A top government official has invited the executive body of the East Line Bus Association to a meeting following a protest staged outside Government Headquarters on the morning of Monday 15th March 2021.Secretary/Treasurer Vinshaw Mangra, in speaking to this media house, informed that: “The Deputy Prime Minister reached me via telephone and asked the executive to reach at the Ministry

Ministry of Finance Building located at the airport roundabout …So we’re heading back to the East Terminal now so that we could get something to eat and drink so we can speak with good appetite…”As it relates to the reason for the demonstration, he had explained that they were “protesting for the fact that the terminal has been opened for two years now and up to now we have not seen the terminal function the way it be should function because internationally we know when you go to a terminal , all of the services are [conducted) there  but for some reason the east buses  drop off at the East Terminal and still head all the way down to West Terminal while the West Terminal stay there and Monkey Hill [St.Peter’s] buses stay at the stop.”

“We don’t understand why is it that you want some buses come inside the terminal and wait three hours to get a trip while buses outside picking up passengers on the main road inside of the terminal and gone and make four trips while we on the inside only get one, and so we saying we want fair share for all whether do the like other buses drop persons where they want to go or come here and park up in the terminal and get your trips,” Mangra said.More details to be provided in a follow-up report.

*Photo: Bus drivers from the East Line Terminal protesting outside Government Headquarters on Monday 15th March 2021 (Spokesman Snap)*  

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