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Monday, July 28, 2025

Sando to PoS fares increase to $22

by

Sascha Wilson
1880 days ago
20200603

Days af­ter the trav­el­ling pub­lic was told that North/South taxi dri­vers would de­lay in­creas­ing their fare, the ma­jor­i­ty of dri­vers have in­creased the fare of $22.

Last Fri­day, San Fer­nan­do to Port-of-Spain Taxi Dri­vers’ As­so­ci­a­tion pres­i­dent Hay­den Whiskey called a press con­fer­ence and an­nounced that their June 1 fare in­crease from $17 to $22 was de­layed to Sep­tem­ber.

How­ev­er, the ma­jor­i­ty of the mem­ber­ship dis­agreed with that po­si­tion and asked Whiskey to step down.

The dri­vers sub­se­quent­ly went ahead with their ini­tial de­ci­sion to in­crease the fare.

Af­ter wide­spread crit­i­cism by the pub­lic to over their an­nounce­ment that the fare would be in­creased, the As­so­ci­a­tion held a press con­fer­ence on May 21 where Whiskey out­lined the rea­sons why the in­crease was nec­es­sary.

Then last Fri­day, Whiskey held an­oth­er press con­fer­ence stat­ing that the As­so­ci­a­tion had a change of a heart. How­ev­er, yes­ter­day the As­so­ci­a­tion’s vice pres­i­dent, now act­ing pres­i­dent Ken­neth Williams, sent out a no­tice ad­vis­ing the pub­lic that the fare was in­creased and apol­o­gised for the mis­com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Williams told Guardian Me­dia that Whiskey made the an­nounce­ment with­out the sup­port of the ma­jor­i­ty of the dri­vers and they have since asked him to step down. He said the in­crease was nec­es­sary at this time be­cause the dri­vers were un­able to pro­vide for their fam­i­lies and meet their com­mit­ments op­er­at­ing with 50 per cent pas­sen­ger ca­pac­i­ty. When con­tact­ed Whiskey ad­mit­ted that the ma­jor­i­ty of dri­vers did not agree with de­lay­ing the in­crease, but he did what he thought was the right. “They asked me to step down and I did. I stand by my de­ci­sion.” Whiskey, how­ev­er, said he will con­tin­ue to charge $17.

“I made the de­ci­sion and I will keep my fare at $17 un­til Sep­tem­ber 1. I am a man of ho­n­our, my word is my ho­n­our.”


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