The St. Lucia government has rejected a controversial recommendation prepared by a group of consultants for the establishment a centralized bus service, as it moves to improve the country’s urban road system.

Minister of Communications and Works Felix Finisterre has given mini-bus drivers, who fear that service will put them out of business, several assurances that the government had no plans to establish a central bus service.

He quoted the Prime Minister as telling his Cabinet colleagues he had no intention to support recommendations that would take business from the operators of the public transport system.

But the President of the National Council on Public Transport, Guy Joseph, has persisted in accusing the government of ... _CBJ