A bill put before the House legal affairs committee on Monday may allow sex offenders and murderers to receive or renew licences allowing them to drive taxis or buses (News Review, Sunday Mail, June 24).
The proposal jointly submitted by Disy, Akel and the Solidarity movement is an amendment to the existing law and will allow if passed, people who have been sentenced to offences under the criminal code and have served their time and been rehabilitated, to obtain a licence to drive a bus or taxi.
Would these cabinet members allow their daughters, sons, wives and even their mothers ride on these buses or taxis? No?
Neither would I nor the rest of the population.
Helen Serghiou, Ayia Phyla, Limassol
5 Comments
oratis
July 8, 2018 at 16:37if someone has been a sex offender or a murderer then being denied a job in transport especially taxis should be part and parcel of his or her punishment.
the people pushing this bill forward are wrong and lack morals, they should be ashamed of themselves.
as for murderers, they should even be out, they should be still in prison.
Evergreen
July 8, 2018 at 10:41I would never ever think to travel where my driver has this past history.
oratis
July 8, 2018 at 16:38don’t blame you but if this law goes through people like you will not know if the driver has had a past history.
Evergreen
July 8, 2018 at 17:12A scary idea to sit behind a past sex offender in some taxi:(
Douglas
July 8, 2018 at 05:09I understand that respective Governments have a duty of care to protect the general public,it appears that this proposal is against that principle so let’s hope common sense prevails and the criminal statistics for rehabilitation and repeat offenders are compared.