A government approved river taxi service across the Berbice River will commence today even as government and the Berbice Bridge Company Inc (BBCI) remain in talks to reduce the tolls to cross the bridge.
At his post-cabinet media briefing on Friday, Minister of State Joseph Harmon told reporters that the river taxi service will commence in the morning. “This is from Monday coming so that the children who have to go to school and the elderly persons they will have that alternative in place from Monday,” he said.
Harmon’s announcement came almost two weeks after the media was told that cabinet had given approval for the service to commence. The decision for such a service comes in the face of the refusal thus far of the BBCI to accept the APNU+AFC government’s proposal for the lowering of the tolls to cross the bridge.
