Tag: Department of Vehicle and Equipment Services
Garbage workers on overtime to catch up
(CNS): Garbage collection workers at the Department of Environmental Health worked double shifts on Thursday and officials said that this would continue through to at least Saturday, 5 January, to address delays in rubbish collection in George Town and the Eastern Districts. Despite bringing in a new management team from other parts of the civil […]
Work begins on $6.6M CIG vehicle depot upgrade
(CNS): The infrastructure minister and other government officials were out in force with golden shovels Friday breaking ground on a $6,655,000 redevelopment project at the Department of Vehicle and Equipment Services (DVES). What the minister described as “long-awaited” upgrades at the North Sound Road facility will see overhauls to the vehicle repairing bays, the parking lot and […]
Post office to pilot CIG’s first electric car
(CNS): The first ever electric vehicle to join the government’s fleet of cars is a new post office van. With a price tag of $36,520, the van is expected to save the public purse some $4,000 in annual fuel costs and cut maintenance expenses by 40%, paying for itself within five years. The post office […]
New GasBoy system to tighten up fuel management
(CNS): A new fuel system has been introduced by the Department of Vehicle and Equipment Services (DVES) that it said will improve control of the public cash spent filling up government’s fleet of vehicles. The potential for abuse of the card payment system being used by public sector workers at the government depot was exposed […]
