Ke­jan Haynes

Op­po­si­tion MP Dr Roodal Mooni­lal is call­ing on the gov­ern­ment to halt any penal­ties for mo­torists who are un­able to in­spect their ve­hi­cles be­cause of is­sues in the Li­cens­ing of­fice.

There have been com­plaints from the pub­lic that their elec­tron­ic cer­ti­fied copy is dif­fer­ent from their ac­tu­al reg­is­tra­tion. The prob­lem stemmed from the at­tempt to digi­tise records.

Speak­ing at the UNC's Sun­day press con­fer­ence, Dr. Mooni­lal said Li­cens­ing is pun­ish­ing the pop­u­la­tion for some­thing that is not their fault. He com­plained that peo­ple now have to go to the li­cens­ing of­fice where the da­ta is "faulty and in­ac­cu­rate." He called on the of­fice to clean up its act.

"Imag­ine through no fault of your own you get a $5000 tick­et and points off your li­cense be­cause the Li­cens­ing Of­fice sys­tem is faulty, in­ac­cu­rate and im­prop­er," he said. "To­day we call on the Trans­port Com­mis­sion­er, the Min­is­ter of Trans­port Ro­han Sinanan, please put things in place to en­sure that a mo­torist due to no fault of their own can­not get their in­spec­tion on time are not charged, ought not to face a penal­ty by li­cens­ing of­fi­cers."

"The spelling of peo­ple's name the reg­is­tra­tion num­ber, the chas­sis num­ber, the en­gine num­ber and so on, "he not­ed. "Imag­ine to­day you can­not get your in­spec­tion stick­er be­cause your name Vidya and they put Vin­dra."