The Cabinet invited four officials from Global Ports Holding (GPH)—the firm that has management responsibility for Heritage Quay and the expanded St. John’s Port facilities—to report on its plans to make the extraction of visitors from the cruise ships to the shops, to join walking tours, and to paid-for ground transport, more orderly. The team presented a video clip which showed taxi drivers actually engaged in a fist fight in the presence of cruise passengers. It appears that unauthorized drivers seek to attract visitors to their vehicles, even wearing shirts that match the colour utilized by the legitimate drivers. The wall of drivers who virtually impose a barrier to visitors who choose to disembark the vessels, shouting and carrying signs, give the impression of great disorder. The team has consulted with the Police, the shop owners, the vendors and the drivers about making the welcome scene far friendlier than it now is. Their plans will be concretized and rolled out within weeks.
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I hope it includes clear communication with all stakeholders, especially the taxi drivers. It would be a shame if the new measures end up causing more confusion or frustration.
A well-organized system will really help reduce tensions and improve the overall experience for both taxi drivers and visitors.
The police needs to be more proactive at the port. Too much unauthorized people renting cars and also using private vehicles to run taxi when large amount of visitors disembark the boats. Even government workers taking time off to run illegal taxi. Our tourism product will be seriously affected if a serious accident happens by elligal drivers or a real bad fight that resulted in a life been lost as a result of greed .
On days where 3 or 4 boats are in the legitimate taxi’s are encouraging others to come down. So I don’t see how now that is an issue @ straight talk.
What you don’t have the skill to talk to tourist or your making more than enough money so you trying to blight others from making an extra $.
The legitimate taxi’s are fighting amongst themselves for years now even at airport where their’s an association or company (whatever they calling themselves now). So don’t make it seems as if it’s a free for all. Check your facts first.
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