Frustration mounted at the central bus terminal when over fifty people were left stranded for hours waiting for drivers to finish a meeting with officials.

Yesterday morning, BIU President Chris Furbert and Premier Ewart Brown gave the go-ahead for bus drivers and the allied workers division to down tools.

Pat Darrell who was trying to go home in St. David's said she had not heard about the stoppage until she was on the bus going to Hamilton and then it was too late to turn back.

"In the last few months it feels like this happens every Friday. I am disgusted. I didn't know until I got on the bus and I need to get home because I'm on medication."

Others who were stranded miles from their homes expressed similar sentiments after already sitting in the heat for two hours waiting for a bus when The Royal Gazette stopped by the terminal at 1 p.m.

Buses stopped running at 11 a.m. with the meeting starting at 12 and was planned to complete at 1 p.m. Continued disagreements, however, meant the meeting lasted until 3 p.m. Drivers then returned to work.

These issues, however, were no comfort yesterday for four elderly women who had also heard nothing of the work stoppage despite it being in the media. "We've been here for over an hour," one lady said, "It's very inconvenient. They should have advertised the fact that they're not running. How was I going to get back when I only found out when I was already on the bus?"