00:00 Tourist Christine Kestelo said there was an agreement for a set tour price before
00:06 she and her companion Pete entered the taxi in Scarborough Tobago.
00:11 Now I want to make sure that it's one hour that price for both of us not that
00:17 price for one of us but for both of us he's like oh yeah yeah good price good
00:21 price so he gets a guy to take us and he says hey this is the price for them for
00:26 the ride. Miss Kestelo said in a video which has now gone viral on social media
00:32 that the taxi fare changed suddenly not too long into their journey to Fort King
00:39 George. It wasn't even two blocks away he starts in on he turns down the music and
00:45 he starts in on yeah but I have to pay you know I have to pay taxes on that
00:49 amount of money so it's gonna be it's gonna be double and I go no it's not
00:55 gonna be double and Pete even spoke up he goes nope we agreed on a price that's
00:58 the price he's like oh you know I have to pay taxes da da da da da da and Pete even
01:04 said it doesn't matter we agreed on that price that's the price it is. She said
01:08 she decided to stay in the taxi when she overheard that the driver was going to
01:13 leave them at the fort. Our whole ride up to the top of this little cliff where
01:19 there's a fort was him talking about money so we get up to the fort and I had
01:26 heard him talking in the cab about how he's gonna drop us off at the fort and
01:29 he's gonna go back down and get more people so I lean over to Pete and I'm
01:33 like you go ahead and go outside and get photos I'm staying in here I'm not
01:37 leaving this taxi cab so Pete gets out and the guy's like oh he's like you're
01:41 not gonna get out and I said no I'm not gonna get out and he goes I need to go
01:45 get more people and I said no you're supposed to drive us around for this
01:49 amount of time for this price. Things went downhill from there as she claimed
01:55 the taxi driver went on and on about taxes to be paid. And I said I'm not
02:00 gonna play this game I'm not gonna play this game I said after he gets back in
02:05 the car I want to be taken down back to the ship right now he goes no no no but
02:10 when they get when I get back they're gonna wonder why I don't have more money
02:14 on me I go I don't care I said this is the amount we agreed on I said you're
02:19 not taking us anywhere else you're taking us back down Pete gets in the
02:23 vehicle he's like darling is everything okay and I'm like yeah I have it handled
02:25 you know but then he starts in when Pete's there too he's like I'll take you
02:30 another place but you need to pay me double we're like we're not going to
02:34 another place you take us down now well then he's slowly driving and it just
02:39 doesn't feel right and we get stuck in like a little bit of a traffic jam the
02:45 tourists later decided to pay the driver get out of the taxi and walk TV6 news
02:51 contacted president of the Tobago maxi taxi Association
02:54 Cloyd Williams on the matter if you have to go down to Plymouth it's going to be
03:13 more or double because it all has expired almost expire and there is a
03:19 convention came in and he mentioned really we have to pay tax on that kind
03:26 of thing mr. Williams told the TV6 news that the price for the tour changed when
03:31 there was a request to visit additional sites however he said the visitors
03:36 should not have been told about any port tax by the driver what I know he is
03:43 responsible for paying a port tax to the Association and she said that he
03:47 mentioned that it is true which is true also to every passenger that came off
03:52 the cruise ship we have to pay a head from an association level to the port
04:01 but I think you should not mention the port the tax that he has to pay that has
04:07 nothing to do with the lady if you arrange at a one-hour tour the
04:12 conversations stay there if you take the folks from the port and go up the
04:19 fort you cannot leave them to come back to take look for other passenger they go
04:24 back to the fort it doesn't cut the matter is now being investigated by the
04:29 Division of Tourism with confirmation from the tourism secretary Tasha Boris
04:34 who said all sides of the matter must be looked at
04:37 Elizabeth Williams TV6 News
04:41 [BLANK_AUDIO]
Comments