Christopher Lowe
I went to renew my driver’s license today, for the 3 year term, but the surly disinterested staffer was no surprise, nor the subject of this piece.
Another Gent, possibly a winter resident, was also renewing his Bahamian Drivers License, which apparently had expired a couple years before.
Perhaps he had been out of the Bahamas for a few years, perhaps he had no car for awhile, and maybe he had been driving without!
What got me was the clerk saying that he had to pay for all the years that had lapsed!!
I have seen this at the Port Department also, lapsed boat registrations, even levied on new owners when the old owner had not renewed.
This has got to be unjust, for any number of obvious reasons.
Boat parked for years on land will do for a start, and in either licensing scenario, if the person drove without, or the boat was used unregistered, it would carry a penalty if one was apprehended doing without.
There is an exception I suppose, that of business license fees un paid where the company was an ongoing concern.
But, what if it was closed for a period of a year, two or three?
People accept these arbitrary conditions I suppose, because at the end of the day, what recourse does an ordinary citizen have??
Where would you find a Civil servant of sufficient authority or legal wherewithal interested enough to hear ones protest?
It is the simple things like this, that we are faced with day by day, that are killing the country by degree, subjugating the citizens under rule of idiocy, certainly not under the rule of law.
