WORLDWIDE TAXI FOCUS
ride-hailing apps and to protect the sector from unau- thorised vehicle hire services, from cars and minibuses to rickshaws and golf buggies. Taxi drivers held a large demonstra- tion outside Italy’s economy ministry in Rome, from 9am until midday, with another protest at the transport ministry from 2pm until 5pm. Taxi drivers also stopped in Milan disrupting Linate and Malpensa airports. No runs were made unless it was to transport people in dif- ficulty, frail, disabled or elderly. The trade unions who called the protest explained in a statement that they are “forced” to stop “to ask that the institutions carry out the reform process of the sector”. The unions complain about an absence of rules and controls that further worsens the conditions of workers, who have never stopped even during the hardest phase of the Covid-19 pandemic. The statement notes that the trade unions want to “remind everyone that in order to guarantee the right to mobility of citizens, while everything in the country stopped in full pandemic, we have continued to carry out our work uninterrupted”. The statement finishes by saying that taxi drivers want to restore ‘dignity’ to all workers.
present an up-to-date road licence or badge. Minister of Transport and Mining, Robert Montague, said the Government is partnering with private sector entities on various projects to ensure that Jamaicans get vaccinated against COVID-19 to stem the spread of the virus and return to normality. “We implore the operators to go out, get vaccinated and redeem the voucher to get their $2,500 worth of gas. It is a very good initiative, and the Government and the private sector is moving to get as many persons as possible.” Meanwhile, taxi operators in the Corporate Area believe that the offer is a good initiative. According to the operators who Loop News spoke with, the offer will encourage some of them to get vaccinated. However, some operators who spoke off camera, expressed the view that the offer could have been better, arguing like a few on camera did, that the $2,500 offer is not enough to en- courage better participation in the vaccination drive.
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‘FREE GAS’ OFFERED TO VAXXED TAXI OPERATORS IN JAMAICA
The Ministry of Transport and Mining has partnered with Johnson’s Petroleum and United Petroleum to provide 341 partially or fully vaccinated taxi operators with $2,500 worth of gasoline. Jamaica Loop reports that the initiative, launched online on 5 October, is to increase the number of public passenger vehicle operators vaccinated against the novel coronavirus. It will start on October 15 and continue for one month or until the quota is achieved. Eligible taxi operators are those who have received the first dose of either the AstraZeneca or Pfizer vaccine or those who have received the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The taxi operators will have to provide proper identification to receive the gas and each taxi driver will also have to
NOVEMBER 2021
TAXI DRIVER GETS HIS CAB STUCK IN WET CEMENT IN CHINA
Could this be the ultimate fail?
A bumbling taxi driver got his vehi- cle stuck in wet cement on a build- ing site in Heilongjiang pro- vince, China on Monday 11 October. Several men tried in vain to pull him out with a rope. Let’s hope that the meter wasn’t running!!
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