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| Posted Sunday, November 23, 2008 |
| Illiteracy will most likely soon cost at least five
Haitian nationals their taxi driver's licenses |
| By Yves A. Isidor, wehaitians.com executive editor |
CAMBRIDGE, MA, Nov. 23 - Given the magnitude and gravity of today's fast growing
economic crisis in the United States, as an innemurable number of defaults and the near-collapse of the financial markets,
involving banks, brokers, insurers and giant mortgage agencies,
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, also
affirm, no one should doubt that the quality of life of the vast majority of
citizens will, in the near future, further change, in the negative terms.
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But for at least five Haitian nationals, all more than full-time conductors
(some of them use a large portion of their hard earnings to help their children
pay for college) of taxi, in
the City of Boston, the cause of their lives being marked by great sadness, with
a lasting multiplying effect, will soon surely be more, and extremely so, than the
economic downturn (4
new reports reveal battered economy), which already has also meant the lost of 2.5 million jobs,
and it may not be long before it further means, but this time, the lost of
additional employment opportunities as more business enterprises become
insolvent, forcing more than 20 million people to use federal workforce
services, up from 14 million in 2005, by year end.
Hackney Carriage, a unit of the Boston Police Department that is responsible
for regulating all taxis, sight-seeing automobiles and horse- carriages in the
city of Boston, according to a source who spoke, by way of a telephone, to wehaitians.com on the
customary condition of anonymity because the person in question was not authorized
to, in part or in full, speak to this publication and others, will soon
indefinitely revoke the taxi driver's licenses (their livelihoods) of at least
five Haitian nationals, a few weeks after a recent investigation revealed that they were
illiterate (this is also ample proof of Haiti's governments gross incompetence) and as a result they were all considered to be threats to public
safety.
Other taxi drivers, including those who cannot pass a basic English language
test, convicted of committing criminal acts will, too, most likely see their
taxi driver's licenses revoked, but only if the offense, a misdemeanor, is five
year-old or less. For the taxi conductors who have committed a serious offense,
a felony, the revocation may be permanent.
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