TAXI OPERATORS ARE suggesting that City store owners cut their prices if they want to attract cruise ship passengers.
President of the Independent Seaport Taxi Union, Anthony Eastmond, and the head of the Bridgetown Port Taxi Co-op Society Limited, Charles Layne, said that they already operated a shuttle system to The City but tourists complained about high prices.
The two spokesmen were responding to the head of the Barbados Chamber of Commerce Industry, Eddy Abed, saying that the store owners were willing to pay for shuttle service from the Port to The City to ensure tourists did not bypass the capital.
“We are bitterly against another entity trying to come to the Bridgetown Port to rob us out of our daily earnings. We cannot lose what we built up . . . (TSG)
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