"Pulling Bull" To be LEGALISED

[Snags]

Roflmao, this is quality. I love how stupid it is and I love how some people are like "this is a grand idea" hahaha.

[Stephon.]

It's up to THE PEOPLE to choose to jump in an H or a PH car though. All those cars that took women into the woods to rape them, and situations where the driver turned around to rob the passengers were all PH. I personally wouldn't get in a PH car, legal or illegal, I would rather jump in an H car, at least I know he went through the proper process and I know that he isn't a criminal.

^ really? their licenses don't have criminal on it? I'd have never thought. Just because he went through proper legislation, doesn't mean you can't commit a crime. I know of several people, who were robbed in H cars and many attempted rapes.

They don't need a certificate of good character with a clean past to get an H license? As far as I know, I think you do. I could be wrong though. This not even affecting me, I good driving around with my b14 oui.

[Trini Hookah]

crims dong lansa > all

[Strauss]

So now more than ever people gonna get "fooled" into jumpin in a car...thinkin is a taxi...end up gang raped...throat slit in ah cane field?

sweet

nice idea jack...ah mean..."people in san souci is people too" ent?

This happening already.

[Snags]

LOL, why are some of you stating the obvious? How can anyone not find this ridiculous? For one, what's the freaking point behind getting yer H Badge now, How in the hell is making something illegal, legal, going to help anyone? Seriously? That's ridiculous. If they were going to give them some sort of sensible agreement whereby they would work favorably to get them on the right track, I'd applaud, but this is just absurd! All the "smart" people in the PP and THIS is what they came up with? How freaking long did they ponder on this sheit and what the hell, hahaha. You guys know fully well that this is a stupid move by the current administration, it's just silly. While Jack was brushing his teeth he said to himself "Ah sheit, my car is in the garage and I can't get a taxi outside, but! my neighbour has a PH car, I need to travel with him, no...then that'd be breaking the law and Rowley will bring this sheit up in the next meeting, sheit, I better make it so that ph drivers can work legally, but like, they don't even need to become Taxi's bearing the H badge to be drivers, I just say it is so and it's so, then I can travel to work, yes"

[RoTaRyBoYz]

Forget all this "pulling bull" shuppidness.. let meh know when they legalize "passing bull" on anything under 18

[zcarz]

Forget all this "pulling bull" shuppidness.. let meh know when they legalize "passing bull" on anything under 18

x freakin 2

[mitsu_chick941]

Forget all this "pulling bull" shuppidness.. let meh know when they legalize "passing bull" on anything under 18

rofl

[Trini Hookah]

Forget all this "pulling bull" shuppidness.. let meh know when they legalize "passing bull" on anything under 18

rofl

hello hello, ID's please...

[mitsu_chick941]

[Stephon.]

Just got word that hitting and running is now legal, because stopping when you run over someone is overrated.

[Stephon.]

Just got word that the shoulder is now legally another lane.

[Stephon.]

Just got word that you can now drive on the right hand side of the road.

[RASC]

Taken from the EXPRESS comments:

if you want to use your car as a "taxi" go the whole hog and get a taxi badge. The claim is that 'H' cars dont work after hours because of crime. What makes the 'PH' driver who is known by residents any less susceptible to criminal elements? In his quest for being the ONLY Minister to solve ALL of T&T's problems, Jack better be careful he's not putting plasters on wounds without cleaning them first. Legalising 'PH' will bring with it a host of other problems that may prove to be more destructive and costly that simply thinking this through. Someone suggested letting PTSC buses run later to rural areas...that could work. REDUCE crime and that will surely work as well.

[bushwakka]

Unfortunately once this initiative is an additional cost to the PH drivers, they will avoid it as much as possible.

Insurance Coverage for commuters could only mean higher premiums for the PH taxis.

Instead of making it easier...say a 3 month grace period where a campaign is launched to get all PH drivers off the road and become regularised H drivers, with fees discounted-after which a strict program to clamp down on illegals is executed.

No they go the other route and legalise PH drivers... BRILLIANT!

Legalised H drivers have paid their dues and did it the legal and correct way, yet those who break the law are given "ah bligh" and allowed to continue. Great Job Jack

sum ppl don't like the 'stigma' of havin their car as an 'H' car.......

for instance....ah gyal parents might say 'buh wdmc, my daughter goin out wit a taxi driver!!

[ESS]

It's a living. I see your point though, girls would quicker run down a bandit than a taxi driver who is making an honest dollar.

[bushwakka]

^the sad truth aint it....girls like the bad boys....not the poor boy taxi jiver

[~Vēġó~]

I strongly do not agree with this idea of regularising ph drivers!!!! for many of the reasons already stated!

[Trini Hookah]

murder should be legal once you kill the person for good reason and between the hours 10pm-6am...noone supposed to be out between those hours so most likely you deserved it

my lime > murder

[sMASH]

It's up to THE PEOPLE to choose to jump in an H or a PH car though. All those cars that took women into the woods to rape them, and situations where the driver turned around to rob the passengers were all PH. I personally wouldn't get in a PH car, legal or illegal, I would rather jump in an H car, at least I know he went through the proper process and I know that he isn't a criminal.

^ really? their licenses don't have criminal on it? I'd have never thought. Just because he went through proper legislation, doesn't mean you can't commit a crime. I know of several people, who were robbed in H cars and many attempted rapes.

same crap could happen in an h car as well, h does not automatically imply safe.
also, u dont get h cars after 6pm if u live where i live, but u dont have to wait long for a ph in the night either. so is either wait till 7 am to get a h car or travel any time u want in a ph

[janfar]

Uhhhhh....




Legalising PH taxis a PNM plan—Imbert

Former works and transport minister Colm Imbert is supporting the Government’s move to regularise PH drivers, saying it was the PNM’s intention to do so, five months ago. In an interview yesterday, Imbert said this idea was brought to Parliament on February 24, 2010, some five months before it was announced by acting Prime Minister Jack Warner. Imbert denied that the PNM had contemplated a crackdown on PH drivers, after the deaths of some passengers sometime ago.“It seems you have short memories because we intended to regularise PH drivers,” he said. The former minister that said on February 24, 2010, he took to Parliament a bill to amend the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act. “When it came to the question of PH drivers, I acknowledged that they make a very valuable contribution, while on the other hand, what they were doing was not safe because passengers cannot get insurance,” Imbert said.

He said the PNM government delayed the introduction of increased penalties for PH drivers by six months. “We put into the act that new penalties for unregistered drivers will not come into effect until September 2010 and that period of time would be used to allow discussion and research on how to regularise PH drivers,” Imbert said. He said former Tabaquite MP Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj had suggested that the Government introduce a system used in England where private taxis could operate without the rigours of licensing associated with route taxis. “That means that they would operate off the main road...We indicated then that we would introduce this within the six-month period,” Imbert said.

He said he had no problems with the new Government implementing a plan to regularise PH drivers, as long as it was done with standards. “What Warner is doing is simply following through with the statement of policy of the PNM that we made in February this year,” he said. “I have no objection to this as long as it was done properly and there is some minimum standards to ensure that the PH drivers are not competing with regular taxis.” On Warner’s plan to have contractors work at nights to complete the Godineau Bridge, Imbert said this was already happening in the PNM days, but only on weekends. He said the bridge was a complex project and from time to time night work would have been required.

[Trini Hookah]

It's up to THE PEOPLE to choose to jump in an H or a PH car though. All those cars that took women into the woods to rape them, and situations where the driver turned around to rob the passengers were all PH. I personally wouldn't get in a PH car, legal or illegal, I would rather jump in an H car, at least I know he went through the proper process and I know that he isn't a criminal.

^ really? their licenses don't have criminal on it? I'd have never thought. Just because he went through proper legislation, doesn't mean you can't commit a crime. I know of several people, who were robbed in H cars and many attempted rapes.

same crap could happen in an h car as well, h does not automatically imply safe.
also, u dont get h cars after 6pm if u live where i live, but u dont have to wait long for a ph in the night either. so is either wait till 7 am to get a h car or travel any time u want in a ph

for the past week, in broad daylight i can honestly say that i've seen 8x more PH cars on the Chaguanas Main road than H cars...

[Chimera]

same thing at st marys junction


5 ph cars for every h car

[Stephon.]

Thanks janfar, explains why the idea is so stupid.

[Rooki3]

Uhhhhh....




Legalising PH taxis a PNM plan—Imbert

Former works and transport minister Colm Imbert is supporting the Government’s move to regularise PH drivers, saying it was the PNM’s intention to do so, five months ago. In an interview yesterday, Imbert said this idea was brought to Parliament on February 24, 2010, some five months before it was announced by acting Prime Minister Jack Warner. Imbert denied that the PNM had contemplated a crackdown on PH drivers, after the deaths of some passengers sometime ago.“It seems you have short memories because we intended to regularise PH drivers,” he said. The former minister that said on February 24, 2010, he took to Parliament a bill to amend the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Act. “When it came to the question of PH drivers, I acknowledged that they make a very valuable contribution, while on the other hand, what they were doing was not safe because passengers cannot get insurance,” Imbert said.

He said the PNM government delayed the introduction of increased penalties for PH drivers by six months. “We put into the act that new penalties for unregistered drivers will not come into effect until September 2010 and that period of time would be used to allow discussion and research on how to regularise PH drivers,” Imbert said. He said former Tabaquite MP Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj had suggested that the Government introduce a system used in England where private taxis could operate without the rigours of licensing associated with route taxis. “That means that they would operate off the main road...We indicated then that we would introduce this within the six-month period,” Imbert said.

He said he had no problems with the new Government implementing a plan to regularise PH drivers, as long as it was done with standards. “What Warner is doing is simply following through with the statement of policy of the PNM that we made in February this year,” he said. “I have no objection to this as long as it was done properly and there is some minimum standards to ensure that the PH drivers are not competing with regular taxis.” On Warner’s plan to have contractors work at nights to complete the Godineau Bridge, Imbert said this was already happening in the PNM days, but only on weekends. He said the bridge was a complex project and from time to time night work would have been required.

awaits RASC 1back!

[SR]

if yuh want to ply a "ph" in rural areas why cant you apply for your taxi badge like everyone else

cant get a certificate of character............should have thought of that before doing the crime
why should citizens be subject to transportation provided by known criminals

why bother having an "h" that has to be inspected every year when ah "ph" man could pull bull tax free

[sharkman121]

also, watch and see how that will cause all private cars insurance to skyrocket as well.

[SR]

doh get me started on private car insurance nah

one of the biggest rippoffs in this country to have full comp insurance then be told cost of replacment of new parts has to be devalued as the car is not "new" so they not paying the full value of the cost of a replacment part

[RBphoto]

Dat is pulling bull... Oh wait...yes it is.

[brakefluid]

During rush hour they breaking their style. Who do you turn to? The PH driver of course. There are two sides to every coin...at least in moral terms.

at 10 in the night or later when you finish work late, you tired and exhausted, there is no "H" cars to be found. Who do you turn to? Oops you forgot, you have a car so you don't need to travel so to hell with the ones that do.

I know that when I used to work night shift and I did not have a car, H cars were nowhere to be found, but the PH was there to get me home. I am not saying that they are all good but most H cars work the taxi stand and enjoy 9-5 working hours.