![]() It had a doorless entry instead of a mere keyless one. My greatest fear in driving a car way ahead of its time was also its greatest attribute. The insurance cost 1,500 dollars so I joked to Trinidadian Gerry Hadeed, whose company Beacon owns the insurance company, “You want me to sell the car to pay for the insurance?” When I arrived in Barbados for an indefinite period as a PAHO consultant, I needed transport and, for $1,000, bought myself a ‘used’ Moke. ![]() They will not take a ride in one even if rain is falling “bucket a drop”, a rare enough phenomenon in that country, unless there is cricket at Kensington Oval. Increasingly, the roads are getting more like Bushy Park, the country’s racetrack, than the sedate and careful highways and byways that I so enjoyed in my time there, especially when I drove a Mini-Moke.īarbadians never considered the little vehicle without doors, windows or anything except an engine and rudimentary steering, a ‘car’. ![]() From my experience, the only country in the Caribbean where people generally obey driving laws is Barbados and, even there, things have started heading in the wrong direction. Officially, “indicators” or exterior signal lights which are on every vehicle are not accepted by the Government as substitutes. Two wrongs don’t make a right but three left turns do, even if you don’t signal your intentions with your outstretched right hand, the prescribed and only legal way in Trinidad and Tobago as well as Barbados. ![]()
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