Mem­bers of the pub­lic were left dis­ap­point­ed yes­ter­day as dri­ving per­mit ser­vices at the Princes Town Li­cens­ing Of­fice were sus­pend­ed due to sew­er is­sues af­fect­ing the fa­cil­i­ty.

When Guardian Me­dia vis­it­ed the com­pound, sev­er­al peo­ple were seen leav­ing af­ter be­ing in­formed that ser­vices had been sus­pend­ed.

One work­er who re­quest­ed anonymi­ty, stat­ed that a foul scent was de­tect­ed when they ar­rived for work, and they lat­er learned that there was a sew­er is­sue at the back of the con­tain­er hous­ing the pho­tog­ra­phy sec­tion. De­spite the un­san­i­tary sit­u­a­tion, the work­er said staff were not al­lowed to leave.

Apart from the sew­er prob­lem, the work­er said there were oth­er is­sues in­clud­ing there be­ing on­ly one toi­let for a staff of 35, cramped spaces, no lunch room and the di­lap­i­dat­ed con­di­tion of the build­ing.

The work­er is hop­ing that the min­istry even­tu­al­ly re­lo­cates them to a more suit­able and com­fort­able build­ing.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day, the Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion stat­ed that the sus­pen­sion of ser­vices was tem­po­rary and not­ed that nor­mal op­er­a­tions were ex­pect­ed to re­sume to­day.

The min­istry as­sured that the mat­ter was be­ing treat­ed with ur­gency and apol­o­gised for any in­con­ve­nience caused. —Sascha Wil­son