ANGRY travellers have alleged that some Trinidadians were forced to over-stay their time in the Sister Isle after the long Easter holiday weekend, because of the dishonest behaviour by a cashier at the Tobago Port.

One annoyed vacationer, speaking on behalf of her friends, told TnT Mirror that the cashier insisted that there were no more tickets available for the Tuesday morning sailing of the fast ferry, Lynx, to Trinidad.

The middle-aged Trinidadian woman revealed that she had purchased a one-way ticket to Tobago, with the intension of purchasing a return ticket at the Tobago Port, when she landed in the Sister Isle.

However, her plans were temporarily blocked as the cashier refused to sell her a ticket for the Tuesday sailing.

She claimed the cashier informed her that the only available trip to Trinidad was on board the much slower boat, the MF Panorama, which was scheduled to leave on Wednesday evening.

After her encounter with the cashier, the woman angrily marched out of the Scarborough Port.

She claimed that other travellers were similarly turned away.

“I wanted to leave on Tuesday because I had to work,” she explained.

“If I were to take that slow boat then I might have arrived on Thursday morning and I would have already missed three days from work.”

She further revealed that on Easter Monday morning, her Tobagonian relative went down to the Scarborough Port and successfully purchased a return ticket for the Lynx’s sailing on the said Tuesday morning.

“I found it strange that a Tobagonian could have gotten the ticket and I couldn’t,” she snapped.

“Is it a discrimination thing?

“I promptly boarded the boat on Tuesday morning and much to my surprise there were several empty seats; in fact there was hardly anyone on the boat.

“I found that was unfair and dishonest behaviour by the Port cashier who lied to me on Good Friday and said that the trip was already sold out.”