Egeton Newman has condemned the lawless activities carried out by some members of the public transport sector during Monday’s protest, but has vowed to continue the strike until the Government accedes to their demands for a traffic ticket amnesty.

Newman, who is president of the Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services (TODSS), was reacting to a statement issued by the Cabinet which said it will not support lawlessness and disorder, but made no mention of an amnesty.

“Us reading this statement, what it is saying to us is that we are disrespected by the Government… If the statement is anything to go by, I think the public transport sector is in a [much] worse position than we were this morning and… we have been given no reason to go back to work because the Government has shown no interest in communicating to us in the way we wanted,” he said.