Sometime in the mid 60’s there was an amalgamation of the other bus companies, which came under the umbrella of Rocklyn ,which took over Federal ,and Elite which encompassed all the other bus companies operating on the eastern side of the island. ![]() They were finally taken over around 1964/65. If my memory serves me right the Progressive,was first taken over on the formation of the Transport Board in 1955, but at the insistence of the former owner /concessionaire ,Mr Birch, his “birds” and route was handed back to him. ![]() The Progressive ,and I believe, the Federal were taken over long before Tom Adams came to power. Management of Public Transport in Barbados fell down with the flirtatious attempt by the Tom Adams administration to nationalise the service by running the well run private companies like Rocklyn, Progressive and Federal. Were all the senior management team of Transport Board incapacitated at that time that they couldn’t make the call? Were they out of the country? This occurrence speaks to an unprecedented level of political interference at the Transport Board by a political appointee given the usurping of the function of calling staff back to work by senior management of the Transport Board. Why was this call being made by Patrick Gollop who apparently isn’t even on the staff of Transport Board? Why wasn’t this made by the General Manager, Sandra Forde or the Manager of marketing Lynda Holder or Operations Manager Desmond Sabir or the Human Resources Manager? However what I do not understand was why this call was being made by Patrick Gollop, Public Relations Consultant for the Transport Board. Patrick Gollop, Transport Board Public Relations ConsultantĪfter the all clear was given and the tropical storm watch discontinued at 5AM this morning, a call went out on the CBC radio stations for all Transport Board employees to report for work.
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