Fully licensed "PH" drivers will be on the road by June 1, Works and Transport Minister Jack Warner said yesterday.Warner gave the timeline to reporters following yesterday's opening of the El Socorro north access roads, off the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway.He said legislation to facilitate PH drivers would be taken to Parliament and be completed by month-end.Warner said the legislation would include injury coverage for passengers in the event of accident.Following that, he said, licensed PH drivers would be on the road by June 1.Warner estimated there were about 2,000 "PH" drivers in T&T.On whether the issue had been finalised with "H" drivers, Warner said:
"We have resolved their concerns within the limits of what we can do in the national interest but you can't please everyone all the time so there are some puppets of the Opposition."This we'll have to overcome as we can't do much about it."Warner also said the issue of the CAL board should be down for Cabinet discussions on Thursday.
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, who spoke after Warner, said the CAL issue could not have been discussed at the last Cabinet meeting since that was taken up with the farmers' issue and with Clico discussions.Asked whether there was any decision on the CAL board, Persad-Bissessar said: "The board has remained and is working. I haven't yet received a report from the Finance and General Purposes Committee."She said Cabinet last week discussed an exit strategy for Clico shareholders:
"We are looking at some way the State can recover monies expended as a result of the memorandum of understanding of 2009. There are several options and we'll discuss it further," she added.Referring questions on this to the Attorney General, Persad-Bissessar said, "I stopped being a lawyer when I took this job-only a fool has himself or herself for a lawyer," (sic).