A bus of another colour

Mar 18, 2018 Letters

Dear Editor,
Do the owners of the minibuses not understand what the police are telling them? It’s not the colour of the buses that’s the problem; it’s the fact that if you buy a white vehicle and register it as a white vehicle and then spray it a different colour, you have to change the description of that vehicle in the registration documents. Being “poor” does not provide an exemption from this requirement. So what government intervention do the owners actually want? To have the government change the law to state that it does not matter if the information held by the traffic division states that a vehicle with engine number 123 and chassis number 456 is a white Toyota, when in fact it is now a blue, green and pink Toyota? And yes, companies may have sprayed their vehicles; but if they have registered the colours, etc of the re-spraying then there is no need for the police to impound those vehicles. Get it?
Dear minibus owners, I know and I am sure that you know, (ignorance of the law is no excuse), that if you change anything about the information supplied when you register a vehicle, you need to go and change the information in the vehicle registration documents. The fact that for some time now the police have not prosecuted vehicle owners who change the colour but do not change the registration information, does not make this activity legal. And in addition, may I add, you aren’t that “poor”, as one report describes the owners, if you can afford to re-spray a newly bought vehicle. If you have the money to pay for re-spraying, you surely can find the time and money to get to the registration office to amend the relevant documentation. And it is really irrelevant if colourful buses are a tourist attraction. You still have to change the registration information.

Pat Robinson Commissiong

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