Where Are You Heading This Easter?

Whether you will travel this Easter by land or sea, the boats were out from early and so were the buses. Today, many people travelled to their destination for the Easter and News Five’s Marion Ali was at the bus and the water taxi terminals to captures those scenes. Here’s that report.

 

Marion Ali, Reporting

While almost everybody who will spend Easter in another part of the country away from home, travel on Holy Thursday this morning was not as chaotic as it can be known to get over at the Caribbean Sprinter Water Taxi Terminal near the Swing Bridge, the cargo manager, Joel Ah could talk to us because it wasn’t yet crowded.

 

Joel Ah, Cargo Manager, Caribbean Sprinter Water Taxi Terminal

“At the moment, it’s not that busy, but we expect to make it get busy by 1, 1:30, that’s the time we start to get busy about.”

 

Marion Ali 

“Everybody coming in with luggage…”

 

Joel Ah

“Yeah, everybody coming in with luggage, and sometimes cargo, and that’s when we need fi deh pahn fi we game.”

 

Marion Ali

“So you have the boats on standby or you have to rent?”

 

Joel Ah

“We have our boats on standby and they are already available. So if in case we need our next boat, we have that ready.”

 

At the bus terminal, we caught up with Phillip Fawda Henry and Aldene Williams, who were waiting to catch their buses.

 

Aldene Williams, Traveler

“I’m here so that I can catch the bus.”

Marion Ali

“You’re heading where?”

 

Aldene Williams

“South.”

 

Marion Ali

“Okay. First time traveling for the Easter?”

 

Aldene Williams

“No, but first time travelling alone, yes.”

 

Phillip Fawda Henry, Traveler

“I haven’t done it in 15 years. I have 11 children. And seven are police officers there in the south, but I have not traveled in this location for quite a while So today i’m saying that i’m off to Placencia.”

 

Eaon Henry, who has made the bus terminal a place of employment, assured us that everything was progressing along orderly.

 

Eaon Henry, Entrepreneur

“Everything is alright. Everybody’s selling the tickets for the bus. Everybody’s purchasing the tickets for the Easter holiday. 0Tomorrow is Good Friday, so people don’t want to travel tomorrow because they will barely have any bus running tomorrow. So right now the crowd is coming today.”

 

Even in the chaos of everything, to ensure boat passenger safety and prevent a repeat of a previous mishap some years ago, Joel Ah assured that they turn on their boat engines before any passenger gets onboard.

 

Joel Ah

“The engines are turned on first and also the captain, they have their checklist, they check the engines – everything that needs to be checked, and they report it to their supervisor.”

 

Marion Ali for News Five.