REAL NEWS: Barbuda MP Trevor Walker is asking some probing questions about LIAT (1974) Ltd., which has been under administration for almost three years now.
In 2020, after the airline was grounded as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the employees were let go, Cleveland Seaforth was appointed by the High Court to administer the affairs of the airline.
That administration should have been completed within 120 days.
However, since Seaforth’s appointment, no report on the way forward has been taken before Parliament, and the Government has sought to extend the period.
During debate on this extension on Thursday, May 18, Walker chided the Government over the long and fruitless delay.
Walker also asked whether the administrator has been informing the Court about his progress and seeking the extensions necessary to continue his functions.
The Barbuda MP noted that when questions are asked about the regional carrier, all the answers are “just vague,” he said.
Walker also asked incisive questions about the deal between the Government and Nigerian airline Air Peace, which should be assuming 70 percent of LIAT’s shares. He asked what the agreement entails, since the former workers have been languishing and need to receive their severance.
Walker is hoping that the Government and the union representing the workers will soon come to an agreement concerning the outstanding severance and other gratuities.
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This 🤡 🤡 already knows that the Land is VESTED IN THE CROWN!
Stay tuned……
Antiguans must get to purchase land at $1 too. Legal challenges to that unfair bullshit will be brought to the Court.
I’m deeply interested in this, but lots of questions with no answers is very unsettling to say the least. We really need a good regional airline for our smaller islands travel, everyone agrees with this sentiment, but not at this 70% going rate,nope! Many are willing to through some money at this(including some in the diaspora) but who gets control is vital in us going forward as a region. Putting the Nigerian in control will not save face with many in our region and leave a sour taste in many mouths, so ask the hard questions sir, ask them please.
In spite of his flaws, and God knows we all have some. Trevor Walker seems to be the only opposition MP who is able to raise and frame issues.
He is on point about the LIAT (1974) reorganization.
Why aren’t the Bankruptcy Judge and the Receiver the ones informing the public and the creditors?
What is the status of the Bankruptcy.
Sorry for you. that you are also so very little informed about court processes. The Judiciary is an Independent Branch of our system of government. We have no way to question the Judiciary unless you are going to send a written complaint to the judicial committee. All that Trevor was doing was misleading and deceiving. And if he was not doing it deliberately that it is even worse. Because it means he also doesn’t know, and we have a case where the blind will lead the blind. The Administrator is a Court Appointed person and only answer to the court. Any Creditor that needs information will write to the court. And the court will instruct the administrator if they choose. Same way we have the Police and the DPP, totally independent. The Executive cannot tell them what to do. But you guys always like to believe things are so corrupt that one Gaston Browne can tell anyone what to do. Takes me back to 2004. The Lockup Party. They thought they could order the police to lock up Lester Bird and others. They spent ten years trying to do that. It cost us millions of dollars. In the end nothing happened.
Thank God that Bowen brought some sense back to the debate. I don’t know why he didn’t advise his colleague that the bill was not about LIAT. LIAT is a done deal. You cannot reverse that. The courts are dealing with LIAT, not the Executive. These guys are lost when it comes to governing. You go to Parliament to amend a law dealing with the Companies Act and you think it’s all about LIAT 1974. When in the questions to the minister the PM already indicated that instruction have been given by the other shareholder that LIAT should be wind up a.s.a.p. in order to make room for LIAT 2020. Sometimes you wonder where these guys’ brains are.
The Nigerian offered 3.5 million USD to Antigua for 70% shares LIAT. The government owes over 40 Million USD to staff. You tell me how 3.5 million can cover severance or start new airline? This is just another Nigerian fraud scam. In addition they want 10s of work permit, land, and years of tax break…look out Antigua. By the way Allen has been indicted in the US on fraud and money laundering charges.
The delegation to Nigeria knew of that before they went off.
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