The Government hasn’t explained why it has shifted course and will now acquire new, rather than second hand buses, to complete the fleet for its rural schools’ transportation service. Yet, the decision, recently disclosed by Daryl Vaz, the minister with responsibility for transportation, could be interpreted as the administration’s belated acceptance of the Public Procurement Commission’s (PPC) position of the inefficacy of the process used last year by Mr Vaz’s ministry to acquire 110 pre-owned American school buses for the service.