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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...

The Bermuda Taxi Owner’s Association was thrown into disarray after its president abruptly resigned after losing a series of motions. On Friday night, the association held its annual meeting at St Paul Anglican Church Hall in Paget – the first since ...

A local limo service started to turn heads this weekend as their new Tesla Model X electric car hit the road. Sam Mathews Jr, who runs Piece of the Rock Limo Service with his father, said: “We have had people jump out of their cars to take pictures a...

Taxi drivers should get the Covid-19 jab because of the high-risk nature of the job, the head of the industry’s trade association said yesterday. David Frost, the president of the Bermuda Taxi Operators Association, added that a high number of driver...