Cabinet to hold meeting aimed at defusing tensions among taxi company members at airport  

Cabinet to hold meeting aimed at defusing tensions among taxi company
members at airport  
 
Members of the United Taxi Company are getting set to meet with the Cabinet
during its meeting on Thursday, April 25.
 
Reports say the Cabinet has extended an invitation to the company over fears
that an internal rift among its membership could cause disruptions at the V.C.
Bird International Airport, leaving arriving passengers without transportation
to their destinations.
 
On Monday, April 22, about 30 members of the United Taxi Company met with
Tourism and Civil Aviation Minister Charles “Max” Fernandez at the Ministry’s
headquarters to address this impasse among its membership.
 

The meeting was aimed at bringing an end to a prolonged row between the
factions of the group.
 
A wide cross-section of the Company’s members has been at odds concerning
who should be in charge.
 
It was just in early April that a long-overdue election was held in which a new
executive was elected to run the affairs of the organization headed by
President Ian Joseph. But some in the group do not recognize the results of
this election.
 
The company’s members are also at loggerheads about what direction the
group should take, since some members would prefer that it revert to its
original designation as an “association,” while others want it to remain as a
“company,” which is governed differently from a regular association.
 
Government officials are hoping that, during the meeting with the Cabinet, a
deal can be brokered and a consensus reached to prevent the dispute from
escalating further and disrupting the critical services the operators provide.
 
Members of the United Taxi Company say that they are, in no way, seeking to
cause any disruptions at the airport.