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GRA commences registering of electric bikes
Kaieteur News – Following several engagements, the Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) Traffic Department confirmed that electric cycles commonly called electric bikes, must now be registered with the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA).
This was confirmed by Traffic Chief, Dennis Stephens in a recent interview with the Big Smith News.
In a video released on Friday by the news agency, the Traffic Chief stated that the GRA have now commenced registering those electric bikes. He noted that with no fatalities recorded in 2021, last year a total of seven 7 persons would have lost their lives using the electronic cycles.
Electric bikes for sale at local stores.
“So this is a new pattern, a new challenge that the traffic department would have faced and as a result, we have engaged GRA to have those cycles registered,” he explained.
He also stated that what they found is that most persons who would have died as a result of those accidents were not a holder of a driver’s license and as a result of a lack of knowledge in the use of roads, would have been a part of the accidents.
In stating that the laws indicate that persons 16 years can acquire a driver’s licence for motorcycles, he urged that persons under the age of 16 to desist from using the bikes.
Kaieteur News had reported previously that electric bikes flooded the streets of Guyana, during the COVID-19 pandemic and as local sales sky-rocketed, businesses were forced to import them by the containers.
Calls have been made for the police to step in and monitor the use of these bikes but, according to then Traffic Chief, Ramesh Ashram, there is nothing police can do until they are registered by the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA).
Although, the bikes are classified as a motor vehicle, because the maximum speed is below 49cc, no licence was initially required. However, with increasing concerns, the Force and the GRA began talks to have the bikes regularised so that they can be monitored by police.
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