book or face the boot, Transport Minister Ewart Brown has said.

He said examiners would have to stick to guidelines on what could pass or fail a vehicle or heads would roll.

"We'll do whatever it takes,'' he warned. "Sometimes you can change systems, sometimes you have to change people. If I have to get involved I will.

"We have taken steps to make it clear that TCD must rid itself of those nit-picking examinations. Our policy is to be objective but we get constant complaints that examiners are subjective,'' said Dr. Brown.

"That's the feedback from the public. We have asked for this to be changed.

They are trying to do that but it's far too slow for me because it's a habit,'' he added.

"There are criteria for vehicles to be passed but I believe some people are adding to this criteria on their own. I don't want the Bermudian public feeling it's touch and go even if they have met the criteria,'' Dr. Brown stressed.

"I have asked the Permanent Secretary to look into this -- why we continue to get this complaint. TCD belongs to the Bermudian people,'' he said.

Dr. Brown said people were getting penalised for "a few nicks or small dents or otherwise bothersome things'' and that there was the belief that what was passed in the morning could fail in the afternoon.

"Personally I am concerned people receive organised grief at TCD but that's not the policy of the Government or the Ministry,'' he said.

"We intend, in the next couple of weeks, to look into the management problem at TCD. It's a citizen sensitive area. Everyone has to go through there,'' pointed out Dr. Brown.

Asked if some examiners had an attitude problem, Dr. Brown replied: "I have an attitude problem. Bermudians don't need extra grief when they go there.''