According to Minister of Works and Transport, Rohan Sinanan, at least twenty (20) Officers at the Licensing Division have been suspended for various unethical and fraudulent practices. The disclosure came days after Transport Commissioner Clive Clarke admitted to Guardian Media that corruption and ‘bobol’ were rampant at Licensing Offices across the country. No further details were provided by Sinanan or Clarke about the suspensions as the matters are currently under investigation. Some of the unethical and fraudulent practices that have been recently discovered at the Licensing Division include duplicate registration of vehicles, accepting bribes for driver's permits and fraudulent registration of vehicles. Sinanan, while speaking in the presence of Clarke at the Ministry’s Office on Tuesday (22nd December 2020), blamed the problem on the Licensing Division's archaic paper-based system. Sinanan noted the Ministry began to discover these fraudulent activities when they started to computerise the system back in 2017. There was a lot of pushback because some people did not want that to happen. And that exercise has shown a lot of the flaws in the system. We are getting to the point where we will be able to identify the people who are doing it. Over the last two years, we have had about over 20 people who have been under investigation for these unethical practices and we continue to be stern on that. Sinanan gave an example of a truck owner having to lose three (3) days of work valued at $6,000 in order to get a truck inspected. He said, "you wouldn't think it hard to pay somebody $1,000 to bring that certificate home for you because you can save $5,000. Those were some of the things that were happening." Sinanan also said his Ministry has begun to offer online services to the population in a bid to reduce delays and long lines at Licensing Offices, noting, "So you should only have to go to the Licensing Office if you have a problem." According to Sinanan, in 2021, Mobile Licensing Units will drive into rural communities to offer services to members of the public. He added, "We are going to have that in the first or second quarter of 2021 where in all the rural areas these mobile units will drive in on specific dates so nobody would have to leave their area to come into Port-of-Spain, Arima, or Sangre Grande to get simple things done." [Source]
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