Published:Friday | January 8, 2016

Persons will soon require a driver’s licence to drive motorcycles on the nation’s roads.

WITH THE carnage on the nation’s roadways spilling over into 2016, Dr Morais Guy, minister without portfolio in the transport ministry, is pushing lawmakers in the Upper House to swiftly pass the new road traffic bill that provides tougher sanctions for several categories of road users.

Guy revealed yesterday that he has already met with Justice Minister Senator Mark Golding to indicate that “we need to have this bill move through the Senate as quickly as possible”.

Guy emphasised: “I want to see the bill passed and assented so that we can start to impose some of these measures that the bill speak to.”

The proposed amendments to the Road Traffic Act were first tabled in the House of Representatives in April 2014, before being sent to a joint select committee one month later. The bill was passed in the Lower House 17 months later in November last year, and sent to the Senate two days later.

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