So finally the truth cometh. REDjet is owned by Simpson and Williams via a company known as Warrens Comminications. I guess people will now be able to piece together the connection between REDjet and DIGICEL. I note Simpson and Williams are listed as owning Warrens Communication but the silent partner H. Nichols is made no mention of, why?

Does Warrens Comminications have a major investment in DIGICEL?

In politics its called engineering your opponent into a lose-lose situation, in other words guarantee victory from the outset.

If the DLP bailout REDjet, the electorate will complain its a wasteful spending. If the DLP don’t bailout REDjet, the electorate will complain they will be responsible for a return to higher airfares in the region.

Brilliant OWEN, good move.

Curiously does Warrens Communications have any investment in Barbados Today the online newspaper? That paper really seems to favour OWEN.

i am sorry about redjet’s demise because i travel the caribbean frequently and a low cost airline like redjet would be to my benefit but it seems that its operators duped the public by promising what was not sustainable in delivery and was nothing more than a ponzi scheme scheme which has left hundreds of unsuspecting travellers with paid for reservations which are null and void.

How owns what..who cometh from where and whatever else , when Red Jet set foot here like PriceSmart…Liat prices when ridiculously low. That meant something to my pocket and it was this I was interested in as a small man.Call it selfish or not, but given CLICO….everyman Jack and Prime Minister brekkin for self nowadays…..”we have nothing to apologies for” either…philosophy…..is the opposite to what we are accustomed to of a shepherd like or caring Westminster styled Government to which over the years we have subscribed with hopes of keeping ALL WOLVES from devouring the kings tax payers subjects …..Seems like we may have to soon re-think our future choices,of Government styles, if this be the best we shall-th now be occasioning. ALL HAIL BRITANNIA !

Redjet don’t deserve one red cent of government financial support, period. The callous nature of the sudden close too was an insult and an affront to decency and cultural respect. Good idea, wonderful potential, much needed but we can’t open our legs for every Dick, Tom and Harry who thought they were going to get easy entrance but now actually have to put up, shut up or get out. Bailing out redjet is bad financially, economically and politically. Even moreso when CSME is still on pause – mute.

We glad you reveal the real owners it will help lick up the myth the white business elite smarter than you know who. The white business elite have made their millions through a monopoly on multimillion government projects given to them for eons by black governments using poor peoples taxes. When will blacks ever learn.

Dear Mr. Burns nee Simpson / Williams & Nichols

Sorry to hear about REDjet, well actually NOT REALLY.

Let me be the first bajan to bid you farewell. GOOD BYE.

When will you refund the money owed to ticket holders?

David wrote “It is perplexing how two local backers of REDjet, Messrs Kyffin Simpson and Bizzy Williams, would attempt to launch a low budget airline before securing all the regulatory approvals. ”…………..

REDjet Irish partners were given certain assurances from the minister responsible for aviation. The minister was housed, wined, dined and given free access to a top of the line vehicle for him and his wife to enjoy whilst on a trip to Ireland. This accommodation came with assurances that there would be a smooth path to licences and all. But we all know this minister looks lazy and is lazy and has been one of the poorest performers in this government.

So when he failed to deliver to the Burns, this is where the problems all began hence why Mr Burns showed so much frustration in the media. The minister did not deliver on his promises for all the kindness shown by Mr Burns. He did not understand that the term quid pro quo. Therefore the start up capital was eaten up while the airline pleaded and begged for licences. The airline was mislead when they were told that once they had a Barbados licence, they did not need anymore and you see then how Trinidad and Jamaica reacted.

Of course, it did not help that REDjet is using the wrong planes but there again they were only going to be doing places like Trinidad, Jamaica and farther afield to Fort Lauderdale and Tampa.

What does the ownership of Redjet has to do with it offering low fares to travel across the region?

When is competition ever a bad thing?

If Minister George Hutson was wined and dined by the Irish than this is something which should be made public. We should not forget that government officials on both sides do the same. Former Minister Noel Lynch was known to be treated like royalty by Sandy Lane management.

When is compettion a bad thing,? When one does not have the finances to competewhich is evident in this case. Red jet had no money to start with and along with his Freind Cow Williams gave the governmentand people an offered that they should have refused.

The Nation newpaper makes the following statement (FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2012):

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If this is the case, and government already owns a stake in LIAT, shouldn’t alarm bells go off somewhere that maybe what government should do is take that said support and place it behind LIAT so as to entertain lower fares on the airline and therefore drive said visitors to the island? Government might not make a profit on the LIAT venture directly, but as the minister is saying that visitor arrivals from the Caribbean have significantly increased, maybe government can indirectly recover cost from visitors who might engage in some spending when they touch the ground.

Such a move would be a win-win situation for government, taxpayers, travellers, and directly and indirectly to the said private business owners.

robert ross and La Bouche hit the nail on the head and knock the ball out the park. who cares who own Redjet? and when is competition ever a bad thing? you guys really off base with this one.

i’m not going to however support government giving Redjet money because what stops the next business from asking and making the case that they need the money?

as for who own Barbados Today, what business of that is anybody’s. some are to blasted noisey and look to cause trouble where there is none. if you think Barbados Today supports one person or the other, just don’t by read it. good lord.

can’t persons form their own opinion or are we sheep?

@David (Not BU)

It is your attitude which feeds the rotten environment which prevails.

@ Ph.D | March 23, 2012 at 3:28 PM |

Excellent contribution. I can’t but grudgingly offer my total support for your informed and comprehensive analysis of the Aviation Industry. I have a basic understanding of the international aviation business more focused on the fuel supply side which does carry some weighty implications for the fares pricing mechanism, market share and profitability results of the various players.
But you, PhD, are a paradox and a total intellectual enigma. So rational in thought and analysis when it comes to practical, real life matters but readily get into a total muddle of irrationality and obfuscation leading to a barren intellectual cul-de-sac when it comes to religious indoctrination and mumbo-jumbo.
Explain this double-sided schizophrenic mental state. On the one hand there is this convincing and intellectually inspiring contributor deserving of one of the highest academic designation and honour as entailed is the attractive moniker used on this blog but on the other hand a raving Judeo-Christian, anti-science, fundamentalist who would have no reservations in sitting in the Court of Inquisition to condemn the likes of Galileo.
But then again, it takes all types to make a world.

@ miller

I am sincerely moved by your kind words . Thank you very much.
Aviation is my hobby , life long. There is no more enjoyable passtime .
Because of its challenges and complexity, it makes it all the more interesting to me.

I am a person who seeks knowledge wherever it is. I have a thirst and a longing to know the truth. When i look at myself, I realise that what I do , can be done by anyone if they have the desire. It requires no special gift, only the will, patience, diligence, curiosity, honesty, and a never say die attitude, but mostly too, the OPPORTUNITY. How many little African children suffered and died too early , probably with the cure for cancer, or some other futuristic technology locked in their brains, now never to be retrieved. They did’nt have an opportunity, and nobody cared, but I am sure many had the POTENTIAL. I had an oportunity. It is not always what we have to show, but many times what we are capable of, that which is deep inside us, and has not yet be revealed. If it is there , then we should nourish it. We need share our knowledge with the less fortunate, but also to look beyond ourselves and accept that there must be and is someone far superior to us , who gave us that knowledge.

I am working my way towards a better spiritual understanding and relationship with the Lord. My experiences, my life , and my personal discoveries, have lead me to the only reasonable conclusion there is, that there must exist a God, and that the life , death, and resurrection of his son Jesus cannot be refuted. What we see around us everyday , could not possibly happen randomly, haphazardly.

An explosive orgasm without the production of sperm will never bear fruit. An empty void of space, and then a big bang without the Almighty would never produce our universe.

I don’t see that I am irrational .I am very thoughtful and reasoned when examining anything. We just have different beliefs. Mine might not work for you, yours might not work for me.But we are both entitled to, and free to come to our own conclusions.

I hope the Barbados Government is not suckered into yet another scam. Lets hope they see the light.

Have a nice weekend in the tropics.

@ PHD
Thanking miller is like thanking the devil for giving you the premission to speak! especially after he has diss you in many ways than one. Your are better that! never give people an oportunity of control .you will live to regret it and somtimes a Thank you as cordial as it might be can be only be the begining!

Here we go again with the same poppycock about the government blamed for the failures of the rich’ when in fact the government always taking the poor peoples money and handing it to them like it is candy in return for the empty promises they make to government! so what if they fail! because of there inability to see the forest for the trees . How many times have we heard these god a..s sorry stories after government has put millions of dollars in hardworking taxpayers money in these never get off the ground projects enough is enough ! Down with the Blasted HAND OUTS NO! MORE!

@ Miller and with Zoe in mind

What did you unleash? Interestingly though, in the light of recent blogs on other posts, I seem to remember that the DNA of homo sapiens is most closely related to sus domesticus (note the prefix). Now there’s an ‘oink’ turn-up for the creationists – well maybe.

@ Zoe | March 23, 2012 at 8:28 PM |
“Of course, there are others like Nnaki/Ralian, whose worldview, IS* the most unscientific, unhistoric, NONSENSE, utter galatic FOLLY, that only a childlike mind, in fantasy, would ever venture to believe; such is deceived, secular intellect! Pythonated, jackass ingested, hogwash, which just does NOT digest, hence, constant, intellectual fatigue!”

Oh Zoe, you made me laugh so much that I cried and almost had a squirt of intellectual semen. I can’t remember the last time I experienced such an intense intellectual orgasm. Thanks for the relief! You have touched the G-spot other bloggers fail to reach. If only I can join your church to hear you preach your ability to stimulate me would be like heaven to me. I would so much caught up swallowing every word from your mouth that I would even gladly ingest the hog swill thrown out for the taking.

Imagine real scientists accepting the theory propounded by you that the Earth, and by “a priori” reasoning, the universe also are less than 10,000 solar years old. Why not use this geological premise and ‘scientifically’ assume that all life forms on this planet were created within 6 solar days including mankind. Then by ‘scientific’ and “a posteriori” deduction all life forms, living or extinct were placed in Noah’s ark including the famous polar bear, the woolly mammoth and Yeti the abominable snowman or even the Peltdown man.
Please Zoe, can you introduce me to those ‘Christian scientists’? I have just had my first hit of intellectual cocaine and I need to chase the dragon. You are too small now and can no longer satisfy me.

Paul said, “Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work OUT ( Not work FOR) your own salvation with fear and trembling.” ( Phil 12)

Salvation CANNOT be worked for, or EARNED in anyway, it IS* a free Gift from Almighty God, solely through the Atoning death, and justifying Resurrection of The Lord Jesus Christ. Why is this so?

“For by GRACE (unmeritted FAVOUR) you have been SAVED through FAITH, and that NOT of yourselves, it IS* the GIFT* of God, NOT OF WORKS, (doing good works or deeds, WHY NOT?) lest anyone should BOAST.” (Eph.2: 8-9)

RR, can you understand that? Or is that too simple for you?

@ ac | March 23, 2012 at 5:25 PM |
“it seems like Barbados has become the BAIL OUT and SUBSIDIES capital of the world.”

The private sector is only following what this administration been doing with the NI funds. Borrowing heavily from the fund to finance current expenditure and to meet the padded monthly payroll is the routine.

Does your keen observation apply to the Four Seasons rescue Plan?
What about Almond? You think your man R T would make a play there to get the NIS to catch the seed before it falls to the ground? After all 1,000 jobs are on the line?
How about the cement plant? Do you think the concrete has hardened enough to keep it afloat?
What about LIAT? Despite the crash of REDJet and the renewed opportunity to recoup market share and jack back up fares, the struggling airline still has serious cash flow problems and St. Vincent does not have money to help out.

@miller

what i said have only appealed to the political animal raging inside you. But in respond to your comment the same is true for Your Spend till you drop Blp party who played a hande in many projects that went bust by the private sectors here as well as internationally

@ ac | March 23, 2012 at 6:20 PM |
“@ PHD Thanking miller is like thanking the devil for giving you the permission to speak! ”

Jealous, ac? PhD has only tasted what you are accustomed to.
Imagine calling the miller Lucifer Incarnate! But this star boy already has you in his arms so you can wriggle as much as you like you can’t get out of the vice grip. For being very naughty and bad talking your god thy god with PhD a Jesus lover I will punish you. Instead of putting my ‘foot’ (aka 12 inch rod of correction – ask BAF) in your mouth I will spare you this time and position it in a more accommodating place where your other big lips and sharp pointed tongue reside. That should shut you up for a while! Now apologise before I make you cry. Let us see how dirty (of the devil) or clean (god-like) your mind is.

If Redjet needs US$8m. so badly, why not offer shares to the public to buy or float a bond issue?
……and get rid of burns he seems to be such a liar, as the trinis are pointing out.

@ Miller
But you, PhD, are a paradox and a total intellectual enigma. So rational in thought and analysis when it comes to practical, real life matters but readily get into a total muddle of irrationality and obfuscation leading to a barren intellectual cul-de-sac when it comes to religious indoctrination and mumbo-jumbo.
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LOL
How you duz come up with these pieces….boggles the Onions to tears Mr.Miller….blogger extraordinaire’.