{"id":113763,"date":"2020-07-19T09:16:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T13:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=113763"},"modified":"2020-07-27T19:43:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T23:43:58","slug":"113763-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/113763-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Antigua refuses to allow CDB-owned LIAT aircraft to be moved to Barbados"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Caribbean News Service (CNS) <\/b>There is an apparent standoff between Barbados and Antigua \u2014 LIAT\u2019s largest shareholder and the airline\u2019s headquarters, respectively.<\/p>

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Sources close to the situation have told\u00a0Caribbean News Service (CNS)<\/b>\u00a0that Antigua and Barbuda is refusing to accede to a request to have three of the 10 ATR aircraft in LIAT\u2019s fleet moved to Barbados.<\/p>\n

The three aircraft were purchased with funds borrowed from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), which is based in Barbados. The other seven ATR aircraft are on lease from various lessors.<\/p>

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On Saturday Prime Minister Gaston Browne\u00a0 announced that a meeting of the major shareholders\u00a0\u2014\u00a0the governments of Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Dominica\u00a0\u2014\u00a0has been set for Monday, July 20.<\/p>

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It comes a week after another scheduled meeting failed to get off the ground due the unavailability of Prime Minister Mia Mottley.<\/p>\n

\u201dSubsequently, we have been given notice as well for a second meeting to take place on the 31st of July for shareholders to come together again with the purpose of winding up LIAT,\u201d Browne said<\/p>

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\u201cSo it would appear that even though they agreed to meet that they have already come to the conclusion and that they have drawn a line in the sand, and are saying that LIAT should and will be wound up.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the likely or unlikely event that those discussions fail, Antigua and Barbuda will have no choice but to move immediately to take defensive action to protect LIAT from any brutish aggression to destroy it,\u201d Browne added.<\/p>

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Harold Lovell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Former aviation minister and current Political Leader of the United Progressive Party (UPP), Harold Lovell, says while he supports not allowing the planes to be moved from Antigua, Prime Minister Browne is to blame for the way things are playing out.<\/p>

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\u201cWhat played out in public, that literally poisoned the well, that muddied the water, that made the whole thing like a schoolyard fight with Prime Minister Browne basically in vague language accusing [Prime Minister Dr. Ralph] Gonsalves of lying and that sort of thing,\u201d Lovell said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you speak with anybody with experience in these matters, they will tell you that whenever you see anything accomplished or achieved, it\u2019s not achieved by people going on the radio and shouting. That spoils everything. My own feeling is that things went wrong once we started to have all this letter writing and this statement about who stab who in back and who [is] treacherous. That is not how you get things done.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce the well was poisoned, once the water was muddied, you\u2019re going to encourage a lot of people to go down that line. So, then the whole argument instead of being focussed on finding a solution that Antigua and Barbuda can live with, a solution that Antigua and Barbuda can put on the table and get others to agree with, you now have public cussing and people taking attitude,\u201d Lovell added.<\/p>\n

But Lovell said he supports holding the planes in Antigua.<\/p>\n

\u201cBarbados now, I don\u2019t know what their thinking is, but I would agree with the position that there should be no movement of the aeroplanes, but it should never have come to this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would not allow the planes to leave, as a negotiating position. I think if the situation right now is such that it appears as though there is no united stand, it doesn\u2019t appear as though there is any clear position, then the fact that they would be asking for the planes to be returned when the airline is not flying, and where apparently there has been no communication, certainly no agreement, then I think if you are in that type of position where there has to be some form of negotiation in terms of what goes where and who gets what, then to me you freeze everything exactly where the assets or whatever else are located.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen we\u2019ll talk from there and if that is decided and that is the clear position that must be adopted then you release them. But for now, I would not release them because to me you have to ensure that all is going to work out in the way that at least you can live with,\u201d Lovell said.<\/p>\n

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Caribbean News Service (CNS) There is an apparent standoff between Barbados and Antigua \u2014 LIAT\u2019s largest shareholder and the airline\u2019s headquarters, respectively. 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