Prime Minister Gaston Browne is adamant that a defamation lawsuit threatened by one of the former LIAT employees leading the fight for millions owed in severance will not be successful. The threat to sue PM Browne has been made by ex-LIAT pilot, Captain Neil Cave, who alleges that Browne made…
By Orville Williams orville.williams@antiguaobserver.com The hundreds of former LIAT employees still awaiting millions of dollars in compensation are again urging the airline’s shareholder governments to reach an agreement to pay them what they are owed. A petition launched in May this year to support the fight for the workers’ severance…
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That was the plea from the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) yesterday as it made another plea to Government to find a speedy resolution to the plight of former Barbadian workers of collapsed regional airline LIAT.
On Thursday, spokesperson for the 55 severed workers, Captain Neil Cave, said they had written to Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley on Monday in a last-ditch effort to ease their suffering. At a press conference facilitated by Opposition Leader Bishop Joseph Atherley, Cave said “things were dread” and that mental health issues had now set in with some workers, with at least one attempting suicide.
LIAT pilots are ‘rotten elements,’ says Browne
Gaston Browne, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda who is leading an effort to salvage LIAT, has warned the former pilots of the regional airline that they could find themselves getting nothing or very little at the end of the day. (Photo Credit: Times Caribbean Online)
Ten former pilots with the fraught-filled once regional airline LIAT have joined together to file a class-action suit against the government of Antigua and Barbuda. The constitutional motion was filed recently in the High Court in St John’s, Antigua, by Captain Neil Cave of Barbados.
This action was met by the harshest of references by Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Gaston Browne, who took to his radio station to brand the pilots as rotten elements,” and blame them for the demise of the airline.