Government on Tuesday took steps to amend the Road Traffic Act to enable the Barbados Licensing Authority to resume issuing heavy goods licences to eligible drivers between ages 18 and 25.Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Transport, Works and Water Resources, Santia Bradshaw, told the House of Assembly that two months ago, the Chief Licensing Officer took the decision to stop the issuance of heavy good licences following complaints from law enforcement officials that the authority had been doing so unlawfully.Speaking on the Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill, 2022, which has been passed in the Lower House, Bradshaw explained that in 2017, the then Democratic Labour Party (DLP) administration took the “rushed” decision to make some amendments to the Road Traffic Act.She said that one of the changes to the legislation required the age limit for persons seeking to obtain a heavy goods licence to be set at 25 years.
