A Trinidadian company has won the contract to provide transportation services for the Marriott Hotel and some local taxi drivers who are being let go are crying foul.
“How can we allow a foreign company to come and take bread from locals for a job that we can do? What is the sense in having local content laws when taxi work and all going to a foreign company? This is a slap in everyone’s face,” one of the affected taxi drivers told Stabroek News yesterday.
“Imagine a Trinidad company get the contract and they now turn back and hiring we who been there. And they ain’t want you to have your own car, they want the car and will pay you a salary. You ever hear such nonsense?” he questioned.