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Could someone help me understand what is going on here?

Dec 11, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
I had submitted a letter to your newspaper in May 2009, captioned, “Seeking help on how to get car registration after purchase from government auction”. This letter now serves to update the public on the current status of this situation.
To put it bluntly, I am still without the registration document for my car. I was told that I had to pay taxes on the vehicle, which is 12 years old. After pleading with the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs, she appealed to Mr. Khurshid Sattaur and a tax exemption was granted. For the PS’s intervention in this matter and Mr. Sattaur’s compliance with her request, I must say a heartfelt thanks to both of them.
I was very happy when I got the tax exemption letter and figured all my troubles were now over. I took the document to the License Office to get the registration for the vehicle…..the first set back was that no chassis number could be found, so I was told to go to RRT to have the vehicle checked for the chassis number; this I did, but the number was not found by RRT. A letter was sent to the License Office stating their findings on the car. I was then told to wait for it to be sent back to the GRA to get a chassis number. After waiting for about one month, and not receiving any feedback, I spoke to the PS of Ministry of Home Affairs again and explained my predicament. She tried calling someone to help but did not get through, so she told me to go and get the tax exemption letter back so that she could expedite the matter.
I made every effort to make contact with the officer at License Office to whom the exemption letter was given, but all to no avail. However, I was able to speak with another officer — a subordinate of the individual who had received the letter. This junior officer told me that the document should have been handed down to him but he had not received it. He checked with his superior’s secretary, but she had no knowledge of the document either. The junior officer I spoke with said that he would look into the matter because his superior was out of the country until October 17. 2009.
On October 19, 2009, when the officer who was out of the country returned from his vacation, I received a call from the junior officer saying that the letter was found and that he would call and let me know when to go to the License Office and take the car. However, today is October 22nd and I am still waiting for his call. I tried calling him on his office and cell phone numbers, but he too has strangely become inaccessible
Could someone help me understand what is going on here? I had shown the tax exemption letter to someone who used to work at the License Office and he told me that I have something good there.
I asked him what he meant and he said that the way the letter was worded it can be used to exempt a new vehicle from taxes. I told him that I was not interested in that and that all I wanted was to get the registration for this vehicle. He thought I was a fool for not being able to get my registration as yet. I am now left to wonder if I really am a fool. Have things gone so bad in this country that one is considered a fool for doing the right thing and a smart guy for doing the wrong thing?
In a few days, it would be one year since I bought this vehicle and still cannot use it. I am just a simple businessman trying to make a living.
I am desperately in need of help with this matter and don’t know where to go for the necessary assistance.
I am hoping that the PS of Ministry of Home Affairs and Commissioner General of GRA – in sympathy of my situation – will use their good offices once again to help me get this matter resolved once and for all.
Arthur Taylor
Johnny Taylor

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