Six airlines seen as taking over from LIAT

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley on Friday announced that the shareholder governments are forging ahead with the decision to liquidate the cash-strapped LIAT while welcoming six private airlines to take its place.

Mottley, who was passing the CARICOM chairmanship to St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves, said six airlines had confirmed services to the southern Caribbean, to begin in a matter of weeks.

The Prime Minister said she was confident the airlines out of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Martinique and the United States would suffice in maintaining the connectivity, especially for the subregion. The carriers named are SVG Air, One Caribbean, Caribbean Airlines, Inter Caribbean, Silver Airlines and Air Antilles.

“I can report with certainty that since announcements were being made earlier this week about LIAT’s demise, six airlines have come forward offering to fill the space . . . We are satisfied that these six airlines can more than fill the immediate gap, particularly given the reduced traffic within the COVID19 pandemic. (Trinidad Guardian) “The police are our friends, they are our protectors.” Urging the public to respect and cooperate with law enforcement officials as their job is to protect and serve, the United National Congress’s (UNC) candidate for Tunapuna David Nakhid has described it as ironic that these situations were emerging in some of the People’s National Movement (PNM) strongholds.

He said the UNC aimed to unite T&T and they should not be afraid of speaking out on behalf of those communities.

Calling for harmony between the police and members of the disaffected communities, Nakhid said his comments last Tuesday which related to the killing of three men by police on June 27 in Morvant, were taken out of context.

Nakhid was publicly chastised after a social media post which read, “For now the TTPS is the enemy but the memory of justice is long and unforgiving.”