Pub­lic Trans­port Ser­vice Cor­po­ra­tion (PTSC) chair­man Dr Vin­cent Lasse has said no prob­lems ex­ist at present with the fu­el sup­ply for bus­es af­ter strike ac­tion at Petrotrin ear­li­er this week. He was speak­ing at a lun­cheon for stu­dents who par­tic­i­pat­ed in PTSC's va­ca­tion trainee pro­gramme, at the cor­po­ra­tion's ad­min­is­tra­tion build­ing, South Quay, Port-of-Spain, on Wednes­day. "We have no prob­lems at this point in time," Lasse said. "So far we have our stock here of diesel and of course we would be very forth­com­ing to make sure we have enough diesel for the bus­es," he said. This fol­lowed in the wake of Oil­fields Work­ers' Trade Union (OW­TU) pres­i­dent gen­er­al An­cel Ro­get is­su­ing a warn­ing to the pub­lic to brace for gas short­ages, three days ago, as Petrotrin op­er­a­tions were at a stand­still. This trig­gered pan­ic buy­ing and long lines at gas sta­tions, es­pe­cial­ly in south Trinidad.

Lasse said 24 spe­cial­ly-out­fit­ted bus­es, de­signed to cater specif­i­cal­ly for the dis­abled, had ar­rived in T&T and by next week PTSC should have a hand­ing-over cer­e­mo­ny. Lasse said the cor­po­ra­tion an­tic­i­pat­ed that the Min­istry of the Peo­ple and So­cial De­vel­op­ment will be very in­stru­men­tal in the pro­vid­ing the ser­vice and PTSC may al­so use the var­i­ous re­gion­al cor­po­ra­tions from which the bus­es will be de­ployed. He said PTSC will, how­ev­er, con­tin­ue to main­tain and do all the work con­cern­ing main­te­nance and up­keep of the bus­es. Lasse said the spe­cial­ly equipped bus­es should be de­ployed be­fore the end of the month. Al­so present at the event on Wednes­day were PTSC of­fi­cials-deputy gen­er­al man­ag­er, mar­ket­ing and com­mu­ni­ca­tions, Carl Ramdeo; gen­er­al man­ag­er Ronald Forde; deputy gen­er­al man­ag­er, hu­man re­sources, Ish­war Jadoo­nanan; and deputy gen­er­al man­ag­er, en­gi­neer­ing, David Bartholomew.