The paper said Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar handed the former head of the All Trinidad Sugar and General Workers Trade Union his new assignment at a meeting at the Diplomatic Centre on Thursday night.
Newsday said its sources said advisers to the Prime Minister asked for Indarsingh to be moved to the labour ministry because of his vast experience in labour issues. He joins another labour veteran, Errol McLeod, who is the labour minister. The Prime Minister has not announced a replacement for Indarsingh in the transport ministry.
Indarsingh’s last assignment in that portfolio was a visit to the licensing department in San Fernando Friday where he launched a new high end digitial driver's licence that has cost the ministry about $770,000.
Indarsingh told reporters, “The primary objective of this system is to implement a secure driver’s permit and to remove the use of the outdated equipment used for the production of drivers permit."
He added that the system incorporates the use of “modern digital cameras along with secure computerised databases" which will make it easier to trace the identities of the permit holders.
Indarsingh said the new digitised system should be available at all offices, including Tobago, within three weeks.
He said the new permits will be prepared within minutes. “I am being told that normally to laminate one particular permit will take approximately five to six minutes...It will be based on the flow and volume of people who come on a day to day basis to renew their permits.”
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