Chief Executive Officer of the local training and consultancy firm, Clarke Productions says that his company is seeking to take its Defensive Driving programme beyond next week’s October 31 – December 1, two day programme, pointing out that the recent multi-fatality East Bank tragedy “surely underscores the importance of taking a long hard look at the way in which we use our roads.”
Earlier this week during a briefing session for next week’s inaugural exercise Clarke disclosed that his company will be communicating with the various state and non-state agencies, through Permanent Secretaries, Regional Executive Officers and other public sector officials as well as Business Support Organizations. “While it is thoroughly regrettable that this company’s initiative coincides with a national tragedy on our roads I believe that it is important that we take something meaningful away from this experience. We will be contacting all of those various public and private sector officials urging them to have their drivers, who, incidentally, are among the significant road users, enroll in our Defensive Driving programme. Our experts tell us that it is important that we try to change the culture of road use across the board rather than simply target a handful of people who might be interested.”
