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Antigua & Barbuda will resist LIAT move to Barbados – PM Gaston Browne
“As you know, they are seeking to redeploy assets to Barbados. You can be assured that if those assets move, then you can’t justify having the maintenance base here, and if the maintenance base moves, then you cannot justify the head quarters.”
Regarding the planned layoffs, Browne said the company should consider the least painful option.
“Now with St Vincent going into an election this year, if LIAT is going to layoff staff do you think the Prime Minister of St Vincent is going to want to let go anybody in St Vincent? Barbados has the majority shares; they say they want more business. Do you think they are going to allow anybody from Barbados to go? At the end of the day it is Antigua & Barbuda that will be affected,” Browne asked listeners.
He reiterated his view that the move would have negative impact on the local economy and appealed to workers “to start to put their business in order because I guarantee you, it will be a total meltdown and destruction of LIAT.” -(CMC)
