Is it just PSV vehicles?
I have often wondered WHY the insurance companies or their trade association have not done more to ensure that every vehicle owner
has valid cover.
Simple things like colour coded stickers that legally have to be displayed in every vehicle
windscreen in a particular position, so that the Police and public can see at a glance insurance cover is current.
Surely, the increased premium income would more than pay for the small cost of implementation?
As a twice victim of vehicle damage caused by people WITHOUT insurance, I am sure we are not alone.

@Adrian

Let us not forget the false number plates issue which is a perennial problem. There seems to be no ‘will’ to solve what are little problems.

David/Anthony,
Other countries do it, why not Barbados.
France has the colour coded sticker and Germany puts the proof of cover actually on the number plates.
There is sufficient technology in printing now-a-days that I am sure it is not impossible.
And I wonder if the insurance companies or their trade association has ever estimated the loss of premium income from the number of persons not insured?

Adrian it not that they can’t do it. It that they just be copied and false one be made. That why actually database would prove more usefully in the long run

Using the mass transit in developed countries an observation is the speed of the buses seem to be ‘govern’.

David,

Injuries is one part of the equation but what about the death of someone, or many in the case of a PSV where that vehicle is uninsured. Its easy to say that in that event the owner or driver or both will be imprisoned but this is not going to alleviate the heartbreak of the family members or their friends!

I recently saw it mentioned that a truck owner was boasting for not having paid insurance/road taxes for a number of years. When challenged on the issue he insolently replied that if he was to get involved in an accident that it would cost him less to repair both vehicles than he would have saved by not paying the required insurance premium &/or road taxes! Furthermore, he claimed that in the event of someone being injured or dying that all that would happen was that he would have to pay the court a little money or maybe spend a few months in jail, if any. He pointed to the fact that the courts are indeed very lenient in Barbados in such cases as a buddy of his who had chalked up something like 100 traffic convictions was still operating his vehicle on the roads. So, there you have it, what a mentality!

Here is why Adrian thinks this should not be rocket science.

http://www.frenchentree.com/france-insurance/displayarticle.asp?id=31957

@Posted on January 5, 2011 by David| 15 Comments
“…what about the average Bajan who may be unable to do so”
the average Bajan is not as simple as years gone by, they would like you hirer a lawyer and seek damages just like you would do

It is my belief that when persons like the writer become involved in accidents where the other party is not covered by insurance,then the Police and the Ministry of Transport and Works should be made liable.It is their responsibility to ensure that law abiding citizens are not hindered by the lawless, and in the end are required to foot the bill for repairs to their vehicles, either directly from their pockets or being penalised later by their own insurance company.
Time has come when we should have a Criminal Compensation Act in place.

This country is failing
Crime is up
Quick fixes and brute force from the police might counter in the short term but long term solutions call for the Democratic Labour Failing Party to do somethng about the crime situation which they have made worse.
Hammie la la yah yah -super fly -was on TV talking shit- the same thing that flies light on. These problems need fundamental solutions and no quick fix will work Mr. Hammie la la yah yah-shit fly

There is technology available that can scan plates and the system immediately tells you if the vehicle is licensed and insured. It is used in the same manner as an officer using a handheld speeding gun and communicates with a central database. We can clean up Barbados if we want to. Someone has said before, why with so much Lawyers and university graduates in government can’t we get the change we need.

I think they refer to it as white colar crime. What is the answer? It is simple, implement and act on the laws we have written. Can’t happen because white colar crime is big business. Anyone heard anything more about the money missing from Central Bank. If within the most secure and CCTV controlled building in Barbados we cannot bring a case to closure how do we expect anything to happen. Sorry to say it but it will change when the family of someone influential is killed or disadvantaged.

If we as Bajans, and that includes ,the authorities and politicians, are able to learn the art of converting just 10% of the hot air and talk that we put down into action, this would be a great place to live.
Our Radio Stations are a classic example. They mostly all have Call-in programmes from breakfast till breakfast, and yet a year or two afterwards, we are still discussing the same subjects.

@de Hood. Ya got that right!