{"id":298714,"date":"2023-02-14T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=298714"},"modified":"2023-02-13T22:08:38","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T02:08:38","slug":"regional-leaders-apprehensive-about-liat-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/aviation\/regional-leaders-apprehensive-about-liat-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional leaders apprehensive about LIAT 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_253172\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253172\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-253172\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/LIAT-at-airport-LH-scaled-e1660154294861-642x297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"296\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-253172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A LIAT aircraft at Dominica&#8217;s main airport. Photo credit: Lennox Honychurch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The future of LIAT 2020 remains in limbo as regional leaders continue to be apprehensive about the setting up of the new entity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit and his other regional counterparts met in St Lucia recently to discuss LIAT 2020, but it remains questionable as to whether these Caribbean governments are quite ready to embrace the initiative.<\/p>\n<p>When CARICOM heads of government met in Castries, the resuscitation of LIAT formed a major part of their discussions, and reports from St Johns is that the meeting ended without any solid consensus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on the information, there is a significant degree of reticence within other Caribbean member states to embrace LIAT in the manner we thought that they would want to do at this particular time,\u201d Antigua\u2019s Information Minister Melford Nicholas told reporters<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government is committed to advancing the resuscitation of LIAT. LIAT has been able to maintain a degree of operations with just two aircraft and has been able to sustain the livelihood of 167 of its former employees and we are looking towards LIAT 2020 with a new possibility of increasing its presence in the Caribbean\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<p>He acknowledged that the loss of LIAT has been felt by everyone and that Antigua and Barbuda is still committed to the airline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere may be an opportunity for some type of joint venture arrangement to be able to facilitate the expansion and resuscitation of LIAT, and the distribution from [Africa] to the Caribbean with an airline like Air Peace,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, LIAT\u2019s shareholder governments \u2013 Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica,\u00a0 and St Vincent and the Grenadines \u2013 agreed to restructure the airline and return it to commercial service.<\/p>\n<p>LIAT 1974 Ltd has been in administration since July 2020 and has been operating a reduced schedule with a limited workforce since November of that year. It is now set for liquidation.<\/p>\n<p>Former workers are said to be owed approximately EC$120 million in severance and other payments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The future of LIAT 2020 remains in limbo as regional leaders continue to be apprehensive about the setting up of the new entity. 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