GOVERNMENT is being urged to introduce speed cameras across the island and red-light cameras since the police cannot be everywhere all at once.
The call is coming from president of the Barbados Road Safety Association, Sharmane Roland-Bowen.
“If the Government cannot afford to do it, outsource it to a private entity. As a matter of fact, they would maintain it better because the authorities here have a problem with maintaining things,” she said yesterday.
Speaking in the aftermath of the most recent road fatality on Sunday night, she also called for breathalyser testing to come sooner rather than later.
Roland-Bowen said it was reported that one of the persons involved in the accident had just left a meet at the Bushy Park racing circuit.
She added that sometimes when individuals attended events at Bushy Park, when they left they acted out what they saw on the track.
She also asked that the Road Traffic Act amendments, which are supposed to come in June, give more power to traffic inspectors to assist with surveillance on the road, particularly the regulation of cars that have been modified. (LK)
