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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 \u201cplan in mind\u201d for regional air travel.\u00a0CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>

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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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s for one EC dollar (One EC dollar=US$0.37 cents).<\/p>

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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.<\/p>

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\u201cBut I give you the history and now, they say, \u2018Ralph, 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves said that air transportation in the region is now \u201ca real mess\u201d, and that he had soldiered on for two decades, having come to the office, in March 2001, at a time when governments across the region \u201cwere bowing and scraping before Allan Stanford\u201d, the Texan businessman and founder of the failed airline, Caribbean Star, who was later jailed for life in the United States for operating a Ponzi scheme..<\/p>

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Prime Minister Gonsalves said he stood up to Stanford, adding he had maintained that the Texan should not control the region\u2019s skies, even though he had relocated to Antigua.<\/p>\n

He noted that at one time, Kingstown was the major shareholder in LIAT, until the US$65 million re-fleeting, which was done under the Aristotelian principle of equity among equals, and proportionality among unequal\u2019s.<\/p>

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After the re-fleeting, the shareholding of Barbados and Antigua increased relative to St. Vincent\u2019s.<\/p>

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\u201cBut still, I was chairman and nobody wanted anybody else to be chairman because I was LIAT\u2019s champion during all that time. During all that time, you know all the licks I got,\u201d he said, adding this situation continued as recently as April 2020 when opposition lawmakers here criticized him for budgeting one million US dollars for the financially troubled LIAT as the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic began to hit the region with countries shutting down their borders.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd across the country, people who are now talking in favor of LIAT, they join the bandwagon. But I didn\u2019t mind all that because I knew it was the correct policy,\u201d Gonsalves said, noting that one of the main regional governments in LIAT withdrew, saying it could not invest any more money in the airline, withdrawing also the one million US dollar investment.<\/p>\n

Gonsalves said that at the same time he pleaded with LIAT staff and even attended several meetings in Antigua on the issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd anytime they pull a strike or a go-slow, it costs EC$750,000, one million, EC$1.5 million for every day. I just couldn\u2019t understand how people who working in the company would want to do this and every time they coming saying is management problem.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said there were management issues, but he told staff that their frequent strikes amounted to \u201ccutting down your own breadfruit tree.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the two things, the lack of appetite by other governments to put money in and the behaviour of some pilots, some engineers, some flight attendants, \u201ccontributed to the airline\u2019s financial troubles, Ralph Gonsalves said, noting that when a flight attendant called in sick at the last minute, this threw the airline\u2019s schedule in chaos.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemember I always said that LIAT, a regional air transport carrier, at best is a marginal financial proposition but it is a vital economic and social matter of the highest importance.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was what I stated all the time: That regional air transportation is a public good and that governments served by LIAT should put as part of their budget on an annual basis so the sum of money to help this important carrier.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that St. Lucia, whether under the St. Lucia Labour Party (SLP) or United Workers Party government, was \u201cactively against LIAT\u201d and other countries said that the headquarters had to be moved from Antigua.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018but that\u2019s not something which is realistic now let\u2019s work together and see if we can make changes,\u201d he said, adding that Dominica eventually came on board \u201cin a small way\u201d and Grenada, under Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell, put in a small bit of money \u201ctowards the end.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut there were no takers. Trinidad, after [Prime Minister] Patrick Manning, all the governments said, no, they\u2019re not doing anything with that. And that\u2019s what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said a former pilot, whom he described as \u201cBig Jim\u2026.a Barbadian white man who lives in Canada\u201d, had \u201cevery solution.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wrote me a whole set of things. I ain\u2019t bother with him. Malign everybody on the internet. Business people of Dominica, a fella, he wrote a whole set of things, he meet me on the plane. I had a journey once and I was just wishing for this flight to be done. He just harass me. My mother bring me up with manners so I just listen but inside of me, I was boiling because of his ignorance about air transportation and he lectured me no end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gonsalves said that journalists in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada and other places where he appeared on media programs and \u201cordinary people\u201d ask why he was putting so much money into LIAT.<\/p>\n

\u201cI go by an airport, LIAT is half an hour late or something, they have some problems. Is a scene they created in every single airport in the Caribbean because I was recognized as Mr. LIAT.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut I took all the slings and arrows because I knew that what I was doing was right. But towards the end, the failure or refusal of other governments to come in and give support and the internal problems with some pilots, flight attendants, some engineers, I just had to give up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves said the phrase \u2018\u201d leave it to the private sector\u201d was also a mantra.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, but private sector entities came and went like Miss Janie fire.\u2019 I gave her the example, Carib Express, EC Express, BWEE Express, other individual carriers?\u201d<\/p>\n

Gonsalves said that Trinidad\u2019s Caribbean Airlines (CAL) services some destinations but not very frequently.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had nearly 40 flights and in the busy season more than 40 flights a week (to St. Vincent) with LIAT,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Prime Minister Browne appealed to Caribbean trade unions to re-think their positions regarding the latest offer made to laid-off workers of the airline.<\/p>\n

The Antigua and Barbuda government said it was providing two million dollars \u201cto meet partial satisfaction of the cash component of the compassionate pay-out\u201d to former local employees of the regional airline, LIAT.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, former LIAT employees based in Barbados, complaining of being \u201cdisappointed and frustrated\u201d by the way they have been treated over the last two years by Caribbean governments, sent a petition to Prime Minister Mia Mottley calling for the payment of severance owed to them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have waited and pleaded on deaf ears for the shareholder Governments to do the right thing by seeing that we receive monies owed. Our financial situation is growing extremely dire by the minute,\u201d the former LIAT workers said in their letter to the Prime Minister.\u00a0CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR WHATSAPP GROUP.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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