The presence of touts on the Route 31- West Bank to Georgetown and Route 32- Parika to Georgetown minibus parks is once again causing distress to bus owners who say they want them off the parks for good.
Recently, one bus owner visited this newspaper and related her experience with what she calls “a well-known menace on the park.”
The woman who spoke on the condition of anonymity told Stabroek News that last Saturday her husband was locked up by ranks at the Stabroek Outpost and placed on $5000 after he tried to defend himself from the tout. “My husband was sitting in the front passenger seat and this tout come around asking if the bus going to Parfait Harmonie and my husband said no.”
“The tout end up pushing he hand at the side of the driver seat and he grab all the money my husband had and run away with it. By the time me husband coulda loose out he seatbelt to get to the tout he had already run away and me husband end up grabbing a cutlass and hitting the tout with it,” she said.
According to the woman, a large crowd gathered around her husband to “beat him” and this gave the tout a chance to run away and he eventually
