The United Minibus Union and the University of Guyana (UG) yesterday made a verbal agreement for bus operators who transport staff and students to and from the Turkeyen Campus to be uniformed but not all operators are on board
The agreement is part of the union’s effort to regularise public transportation countrywide. “Service providers ought to have a standard… we chose to start it with the university,” Eon Andrews, head of the United Minibus Union, told the UG Registrar Vincent Alexander yesterday.
Andrews said that uniformed operators would contribute to the reduction of touting and ‘hot-plating’—the act of