CEO of regional carrier LIAT, resigns

David Evans, the CEO of the regional carrier – Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT) – has resigned just shy of 2 years on the job.

A well-placed source has confirmed that Evans called it quits after “a heated meeting with the board of directors last Thursday”. The source did not disclose the agenda item from the fateful meeting.

The reasons for the head of the loss making carrier’s departure are unknown at this point.

Word of his exit comes just over a year after Antigua & Barbuda prime minister Gaston Browne called for his resignation.

Browne was adamant at that time that Evans, who had been on the job for about a year, should tender his resignation after a plan emerged to collapse LIAT and re-locate to Barbados.

The carrier’s head of corporate communications Desmond Brown, told reporters that LIAT will issue a statement in due course.