THE Carnival Liberty cruise ship returned to the Bridgetown Port yesterday, one week after an engine room fire in St Thomas, US Virgin Islands, forced the cruise to be aborted.
But it was a bitter-sweet return for taximen who ply their trade from Bridgetown. At taxi stands on Upper and Lower Broad Street, the refrain was the same – “business dead”.
As if to support the taximen’s claim, just a few visitors could be seen walking along Barbados’ main shopping thoroughfare and the accents were mainly Spanish, suggesting they could be passengers from Puerto Rico where Carnival Liberty’s seven-day cruise begins.
Outside the port, the picture was the same – taximen waiting for the odd job.
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