Urgent reform is coming to the Barbados Licensing Authority (BLA).This was revealed today by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport, Works and Water Resources, Santia Bradshaw, who admitted that the government institution had several structural flaws that needed to be remedied.She made the comments while pointing out that the authority was still battling with a backlog of over 5 000 drivers’ licences.“It requires a deeper look at the structure of the Licensing Authority. There are a number of positions that have not been filled and it has also impacted on the ability of the staff to be able to properly execute. We have a lot of good staff but we also have some challenges in terms of structurally, trying to get these things done, and so in the interim, we may now have to outsource certain services to be able to have the drivers’ licences scanned and be able to have a system of distributing them to the general public,” Bradshaw said during debate on the Road Traffic Amendment Bill, 2022, in Parliament today.
