St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, who earlier this week spoke of the challenges he faced as he was preparing for a number of overseas trips, including travel through the Caribbean, now says he has a “plan in mind” for regional air travel.
While he did not disclose the plan to listeners of a radio program here, Gonsalves detailed the history of the failed regional carrier LIAT, an entity he served as chairman of for the shareholder governments.
The airline is owned by the governments of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, and St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG). Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne said previously that a decision had been taken that would allow Barbados and SVG to turn over their shares in LIAT to St. John’s for one EC dollar (One EC dollar=US$0.37 cents).
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Gonsalves told radio listeners that he faced much opposition from regional governments and their populations, many of which, he said, are now calling for the revival of the airline.
“But I give you the history and now, they say, ‘Ralph, do something about it. And will do something about it. I have a plan in mind. I have to do something about it. But I tell you, it is more difficult to start up than to have made the reform.”
Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves said that air transportation in the region is now “a real mess”, and that he had soldiered on for two decades, having come to the office, in March 2001, at a time when…
