As regional leaders prepare to meet next Tuesday to discuss the way forward for the beleaguered LIAT airline, one of the most vocal workers’ representative bodies is suggesting that severance should be top of the agenda.Chairman of the Leeward Islands Airline Pilots’ Association (LIALPA) Patterson Thompson said today he hopes the collective approach to the LIAT problems for which his entity has long been seeking resolution, would now first address the financial hardships of staff who have been on the breadline for the past two and a half years, having been severed without pay.Speaking on his weekend radio show, Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne said a meeting of Caribbean Heads of Government was scheduled for next Tuesday to discuss the way forward for the St Johns-based airline and to determine how it would be structured.But Thompson is adamant that priority has to be given to tackling the former employees’ plight.
The Government of Barbados and the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) have announced the first-ever Africa-Caribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF) scheduled to take place in Bridgetown, Barbados, from August 31 to September 3, 2022. ACTIF2022 will be held under the theme “One People, One Destiny: Uniting and Reimagining Our Future”.The Forum aims to foster the […]
The Government of Barbados and the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) have announced the first-ever Africa-Caribbean Trade and Investment Forum (ACTIF2022), scheduled to take place in Bridgetown, Barbados, from August 31 to
High Commissioner of Sri Lanka to India Milinda Moragoda interacted with a group of Latin American and Caribbean Heads of Mission and briefed them on the present developments in Sri Lanka. As part of a series of engagements with concurrently accredited Diplomatic Missions to Sri Lanka from New Delhi, this was the fourth time that […]