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Bermuda’s taxi association is calling on its members to unite to help to solve problems they face within the industry. The Bermuda Taxi Owners and Operators Association has invited all of its members to attend a meeting tonight to discuss issues incl...

Taxi drivers threatened to break the law and deliberately overcharge customers in their effort to win a major fare hike, the transport minister has claimed

Cab drivers are urging the Government to allow a 20 per cent increase in metered fares

An investigation is under way after the taxi operators president ejected a family of tourists, including a baby, from his vehicle. A complaint has been made about the conduct of Dennis Furbert, the president of the Bermuda Taxi Owners and Operators A...

Plans to encourage taxi drivers to work on weekends and public holidays are moving forward. Lawrence Scott, the Minister of Transport, said that an initiative to update the regulatory framework of the public service vehicle industry was now under way...

Tourism businesses have been told to brace for thousands of visitors as the Bermuda Tourism Authority predicts a strong summer season. Charles Jeffers II, the BTA’s chief executive officer, said that hotels were almost sold out for the return of the ...

A near octogenarian taxi driver and former soldier faced down a man who tried to rob him, The Royal Gazette can reveal. The would-be thief bit off more than he could chew when he tackled Colonel Eugene Raynor, a former Commanding Officer of the Royal...

BTOA adds owner and driver representatives to its new executive

A cab driver who led the Bermuda Taxi Operators Association was also a keen veteran of the annual Marathon Derby as well as a race organiser. Lee Tucker, who started running in 1944 and went on to train and manage competitive runners, was a member of...

The taxi trade faces “unprecedented challenges” from the damage caused by Covid-19 and the increased cost of doing business, industry representatives have warned. The Bermuda Taxi Operators Association’s executive committee said that programmes intro...

The Bermuda Taxi Owners Association has named a new executive committee in the wake of the resignation of the group’s president and treasurer. A spokeswoman for the organisation said in a press release that a special general meeting was called this m...

The hard-hit taxi industry should get a tax concession from the Government, a former senator has said. Dwayne Robinson, an ex-OBA member of the Upper House, said the $1,000 payroll tax that drivers have to pay was “a nail in the coffin” that had hamp...