Kay-Marie Fletch­er

Se­nior Re­porter

kay-marie.fletch­er@guardian.co.tt

While mo­torists in South Trinidad faced long lines at the Li­cens­ing Of­fice yes­ter­day, the Port-of-Spain branch was less chaot­ic.

Un­like the first week of the new year, where li­cens­ing of­fices across the coun­try were flood­ed with mo­torists con­fused and frus­trat­ed over price hikes and late fee penal­ties, yes­ter­day was the first day Guardian Me­dia ob­served a small­er crowd at the Wright­son Road branch.

But it was not busi­ness as usu­al for the en­tire day as Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter Eli Za­k­our did ad­mit there was a sys­tem crash yes­ter­day.

How­ev­er, Za­k­our said the sys­tem on­ly crashed for five min­utes be­fore the is­sue was re­solved.

He did not con­firm if the tech­ni­cal is­sue caused any is­sues for mo­torists.

Guardian Me­dia al­so ob­served that the Li­cens­ing Of­fice was out­fit­ted with new sig­nage so mo­torists can see the new in­creased fees for all mo­tor ve­hi­cle-re­lat­ed is­sues.

At­tempts to con­tact Trans­port Com­mis­sion­er Clive Clarke and Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) Road Safe­ty Co­or­di­na­tor PC Brent Bat­son were fu­tile yes­ter­day.