Any plan to establish a new regional airline must go hand-in-hand with the payment of severance and other debt owed to terminated LIAT employees.Head of the pilots association Patterson Thompson articulated that position on Wednesday as he insisted that while a recent proposal by Caribbean governments offers a glimmer of hope for a revived airline, leaders must consider a parallel arrangement to settle millions of dollars in debt to hundreds of “suffering” former workers.“Get the airline back up and running, but also take care of the workers who have been displaced,” said Thompson, chairman of the Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association (LIALPA).On Tuesday evening, St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves told the closing press conference of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government in Suriname that several leaders, including Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, had agreed to seriously consider the resuscitation of the island-hopping carrie
Before making any attempts to revive LIAT – much less establish a new regional airline – Caribbean governments must recognise that there are still more than 600 former employees of the regional carrier out of work and facing severe hardship. President of the Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association (LIALPA), Captain Patterson Thompson said if Caricom heads of government could now have come up with a plan to try to launch …
The following statement was issued by The Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association (LIALPA) in response to comments made by Prime Minister, Dr Ralph Gonsalves. The Leeward Islands Airlines Pilots Association(LIALPA) is disappointed and saddened by the unfortunate comments made by the Prime Minister of St. Vincent and Grenadines, The Hon Dr. Ralph Gonsalves recently in the media. You have been silent for virtually two years and in your first address, …
CASTRIES, St Lucia (CMC) – The St Lucia government says it has entered into an agreement with non-management employees of the cash-strapped regional airline, LIAT, who were terminated by the closure o.
CASTRIES – The St Lucia government says it has entered into an agreement with non-management employees of the cash-strap regional airline, LIAT, who were terminated by the closure of the company in 2020 to settle long-standing termination payments to them. Prime Minister Phillip J Pierre, delivering his first budget statement since presenting the EC$1.84 billion (One EC dollar=US$0.37 cents) fiscal package to Parliament last month, said the government is also …