Monday, October 31, 2016
EDITOR, The Tribune.
Re: ROAD TRAffiC TO EXTEND HOURS TO stop CHAOS.
The Tribune, October 26, 2016.
STILL further evidence of the pernicious spread of the grade D- mentality into public life - the introduction of a spiffy new $8m system at the RTD, but reportedly a shortage of license plates.
Trick or Treat, anyone?
KEN W KNOWLES, MD
Nassau,
October 26, 2016.
Comments
ThisIsOurs says...
How are the plates produced? Were they bought or are they being manufactured locally? If manufactured locally the low supply could just be a production/efficiency issue
Posted 1 November 2016, 6:13 a.m. Suggest removal
alfalfa says...
As far as I know the plates are produced locally by the prison inmates. No excuse for shortage of workers; probably lack of materials and poor management.
Also, should anyone have the misfortune of going down to the sports centre, you will find out that tipping is the order of the day. You can change the system anytime you want, it's the employees who take graft, not the computers.
Posted 1 November 2016, 12:56 p.m. Suggest removal
Franklyn says...
I understand from the Minister's press statement that the license plate are not being produced at the prison by prisoner due to the lack of basic infrastructure but being produced out of the country by a private company (which is a direct contradiction to the reason why local provider and businessman Franklyn Robinson proposal was rejected) and is a violation of the terms of the RFP.
Robinson's offer which included new (Digital) vehicle plates, a complete modernization of the services (from the ground up) included new building facilities, indoor inspection halls with vehicle bays (or test lanes) for the technical inspection of 6 vehicles simultaneously; at 5 different locations on Nassau and 12 additional facilities throughout the Bahama Islands - AT NO COST TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE BAHAMAS> in a 15 year PPP public-private partnerships arrangement.
Mr. Robinson said he also found it “bizarre” that the “superior proposal” was rejected by the government. And that he is disappointed "knowing and seeing" for his self how the system works at other locations throughout the world, while the Bahamian People suffer the bad decisions of a selfish and greedy few.
Posted 2 November 2016, 1:59 p.m. Suggest removal
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