Enforcement as a tool in this matter only works if a great majority of vehicle owners have sufficient money in their pockets where they can afford to be fleeced by the insurers who are now charging outrageously high insurance premiums. But that is not the case in our country where the divide between the "haves" and the "have nots" has become huge and the great majority of our population now fall into the bucket of struggling "have nots" who can barely afford to pay for food, medicines, electricity, water, etc.

These amendments to the Road Traffic Act are simply unconstitutional and unenforceable. No government will ever have either the political will or the means to fine, confiscate vehicles or imprison the "have not" owners of vehicles who make up the great majority of our country's population today.

The greedy insurers promoting these amendments to the Road Traffic Act will quickly come to realise that without the eradication of the ever increasing wide spread poverty in our society, their business model is doomed. And the financial institutions making loans to buyers of vehicles also need to re-think their business model against the backdrop of the vast majority of our society who now fall within the bucket of "have nots" with no means to pay outrageously high vehicle insurance premiums.

At least the politicians are rich

> Coleby-Davis said, "Obviously, the majority of vehicle owners are in compliance with road traffic laws and regulations. However, there are a few who continue to not –– this is a serious concern.”

She's an outright liar. Even senior representatives of the automobile insurers readily admit that at least 40% of the vehicles on our roads today are uninsured because their owners/drivers simply cannot afford to pay the outrageously high insurance premiums now being charged.

And why has this lying woman not yet been charged and locked up for attempting to harm or kill a police officer by running him over with her vehicle??!!

Bahamians are just a lawless set of people ............. If the PF Traffic chief is correct that 50% of persons involved in accidents have either no license or insurance OR may be driving a vehicle that does not belong to them without the documents, then this country is lawless.

This is the same, whether you are in Nassau or on the Family Islands ........ On some islands, they are still using the Columbus yellow plates ........... Where are the Police?????? Or is it that these serial traffic violators are PEPs who cannot be "touched"??????

If you vote time and time again for corrupt politicians to hold elected office, you obviously eventually end up with a lawless and impoverished country. All voters should never forget the adage: *You eventually reap what you have sown.*

But......aren't all politicians corrupt? So who do we vote for?

Exposed2C & Whatsup ........... the voters vote for those politicians who can "grease the wheel" for them ........ It is not as if the voters are totally naive/innocent and the politicians are evil. Both politicians and voters (party supporters) have a stake in these elections.

That practice is common all over the world ........ not unique to 242

And history has shown the 'grease the wheel' practice you speak of is most prevalent in nation's destined to become failed states. And this is because of the failure of the citizenry to insist (by their vote) on elected officials maintaining an education system capable of producing generation after generation of well educated voters imbued with critical thinking skills.

The ChiComs realised almost 50 years ago that their foreign policy efforts aimed at dumbing down generations of American voters would eventually have a huge pay-off by toppling the U.S. from its number one global position without the need for any kind of traditional military warfare.

It's like they sit at home do dig up retarded dumb and stupid ideas.

Furthermore the law states once its valid can be a day before exp. So, I await the law change.

I tried to line up my insurance with my birthdate long ago and the insurance company told me NO. They don't issue 4 month policies. I have to take it for a year. Which means, if you don't buy your car during your birthday month then you can't adjust your policy.

JUST PLAIN STUPID

...keeping my mouth shut!

Insurance and license in the same month will be hard on the purse. Cars can not be licensed without insurance. So why are so many uninsured

Please Plp do not make our lives harder than necessary

**Motor Car ownership was made much simpler** back when we were a 'less potholes and a more English colony'. -- When you got assigned the Plates numbers and off you went to find a Sign Painter to **'hand paint'** your License Plates. --- Richard's little sign shack on Shirley Street, next to Berlin's Food Market, was my go to source for License Plate artistry. -- 'God Save the King'. -- Yes?

This was one of the very few things that worked in my favour.....insurance in July and licence in March. It eased the financial burden of paying both in one month. Now the PLP just rode in on their stupid horse and frigged that up for me. I am so vex......

A **one-time** Plates Registration Fee of about $50.00 should be introduced. -- Along with **you cancelling your vehicle Insurance** -- Plates **ARE cancelled and must be surrendered.** -- Yes?