Personalised plates inch closer
Wednesday, February 14, 2024 | 2620 Views |
Personalised number plates
The draft budget estimates are figures released annually by the Finance Ministry as part of the budget documents post the budget speech. The estimates outline both expenditure and revenue across government for the upcoming financial year and include trend analysis for previous years.
The recently released documents indicate that the Transport ministry anticipates generating higher revenue in the financial year commencing on April 1. One of the new revenue items will be the personalised number plates, for which P1 million is expected to be earned. Government has been assessing the introduction of personalised plates since as far back as 2012, but the process has been slow-moving due to bureaucratic hurdles.
It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...