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LIAT Pilots Call for Sacking of Management

(St John’s, Antigua) The Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association (LIALPA) unfortunately has no other choice but to call on the Shareholder Governments to remove the current LIAT management. We reluctantly make this call because we will not stand by and watch the airline’s financial health  continue to deteriorate at massive levels, to the point where…

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(St John’s, Antigua) The Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association (LIALPA) unfortunately has no other choice but to call on the Shareholder Governments to remove the current LIAT management. We reluctantly make this call because we will not stand by and watch the airline’s financial health  continue to deteriorate at massive levels, to the point where LIAT can’t even pay salaries on time – LIALPA’s press release

 

The following press release was issued by the Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association (LIALPA). When and where will shareholder governments draw the line to signal that enough is enough? Barbados is the major shareholder and therefore have greater influence over the Board of Directors. It seems however to outsiders that Antigua, St. Lucia and a few other countries have more say in the management of the airline.

If what is detailed n the latest press release is correct an immediate response from the Board is required on an action plan to eradicate LIAT’s problems once and for all. On reflection, many of the shareholder governments cannot solve simple domestic issues how therefore will it be possible to resolve those of an airline that serves a challenging space like the Caribbean.

53 responses to “LIAT Pilots Call for Sacking of Management”

  1. James Lynch Avatar
    James Lynch

    You go ahead, Northern Observer, it is clear that you have a picture in your head and nobody is going to shift you from that.

    Now that my father is dead I can say a word, though… he was Chairman of BS&T before that GOB “gentleman” handed the keys to Trinidad, and so I gained a few snippets of inside information from him – having built it up from a dusty old-fashioned company himself, Sir Douglas was not happy about how it had transpired, but of course he was too much of a professional to say anything in public.

    What really happened at BS&T was also relatively common knowledge on the ground in Barbados. But of course you are the expert, so guh long, you tell de people, nah.

  2. David Avatar
    David

    @James

    A very explosive comment.

  3. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    @David which part of the comment exactly. LOL.

    Maybe I was the only one who did not know that JamesLynch’s ‘daddy’ was former Barrow ‘white shadow’ BS&T chairman Sir Douglas Lynch….really would never have thought much of it after he said above “I came from black stock in Barbados”.

    Ah well, we all come from Black stock anyhow!

    But I also found some other of his throw-away remarks highly charged – a little less than your ‘explosive’!

    How freaking quaint was his comment “having built it up from a dusty old-fashioned company himself..”!!!

    That dusty old-fashioned company of old white money that was S.P. Musson, Fogerty, Mannings et al and especially the poor Black bodies broken-down to build the modern day conglomerate that became BS&T.

    And hysterically perplexing his : “Sir Douglas was not happy about how it had transpired, but of course he was too much of a professional to say anything in public”.

    Well give me a break. I could just see him speaking to the public about the windfall $$millons he was going to donate from the forced sale of his shares.

    So yes David which comments exactly did you think were ‘explosive’.

    I actually was not going to say a word but you set me off! LOLL.

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