Statistics show an increase in road fatalities and serious accidents during certain periods e.g. long weekends, Easter, Carnival, Christmas and New Year’s Day Holiday Season.
To ensure safer roads, demerit points may be doubled for specified traffic violations during these periods. For example, driving while holding or using a handheld mobile device carries three (3) demerit points.
During the double demerit points period, this traffic violation will carry six (6) demerit points.
The public will be notified of the implementation of double demerit points by way of publication in the daily newspapers, at least five (5) days prior to its commencement.
The period allocated to double demerit points will not exceed ten (10) consecutive days.