(Trinidad Guardian) The system of disposal of used vehicles will change in “due course” and that may be an environmental issue to deal with, Trade Minister Stephen Cadiz said yesterday. Çadiz was replying in the Senate to an Opposition question. Answering initial parts of the question, Cadiz said the current system of disposal remained for now. He said he was not sure what system would be used when it was changed. Cadiz said Government also had continued with the importation quota system regarding used vehicles which the PNM administration had implemented in 2006.
He said vehicles imported between 2008 and 2010 totalled 4,882 (2008); 3,360 (2009) and 3,655 (2010). He said the quota stood at 13,497 to date and the ministry did not expect the importation of used cars to exceed that. Also replying to a question in the Senate, PP Senate leader Emmauel George indicated that 89 persons had benefited from the bursary assistance programme of the Community Development Ministry between July 2010 and August 2011. He said that was at a cost of TT$2 million and noted 1,585 persons benefited from the programme in that ministry from 2003 to 2010 at a cost of TT$57 million.
