The leader of the Opposition in Trinidad and Tobago, Dr Keith Rowley, says the decision by his country’s government to purchase Jamaica’s former national airline, Air Jamaica, was a bad deal.
Dr. Rowley was a member of the then People’s National Movement Administration, led by Patrick Manning, which forked out 52-million US dollars to acquire Air Jamaica in 2009.
Speaking in New York recently, Dr. Rowley says his government made a bad purchase.
According to Dr. Rowley, the deal was a bad one which he never supported at the time.
Dr. Rowley says the present T-and-T government is paying dearly for the mistake of the Air Jamaica acquisition.
He’s calling on Caribbean leaders to agree to make the T-and-T majority owned Caribbean Airlines, the new official carrier of the region.
Dr. Rowley says this designation will help to address the serious problem of a lack of connectivity between the various CARICOM states.
