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Rowley: Air Jamaica bleeding T&T ‘like a chop neck’
By Ria Taitt Political Editor
Story Created: May 13, 2013 at 9:39 PM ECT
Story Updated: May 13, 2013 at 11:35 PM ECT
Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday Air Jamaica was bleeding Trinidad and Tobago “like a chop neck”.
“Right now nobody knows what the Minister of Finance is doing by bankrolling CAL. All he is doing is giving them permission to go and borrow money short term. As of now we don’t know how much money they have borrowed and they writing off $200 million and the CAL board is having a generally good time as you see in the behaviour of (vice chairman) Mohan Jaikaran,” Rowley said.
He said the airline was now “absolutely bankrupt”.
Rowley who recalled that he had always opposed the Air Jamaica/Caribbean Airlines merger, said as a backbencher in the last PNM administration, he took strong objection to that Government buying into Air Jamaica and had warned that it could come to no good.
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By Ria Taitt Political Editor
Story Created: May 13, 2013 at 9:39 PM ECT
Story Updated: May 13, 2013 at 11:35 PM ECT
Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday Air Jamaica was bleeding Trinidad and Tobago “like a chop neck”.
“Right now nobody knows what the Minister of Finance is doing by bankrolling CAL. All he is doing is giving them permission to go and borrow money short term. As of now we don’t know how much money they have borrowed and they writing off $200 million and the CAL board is having a generally good time as you see in the behaviour of (vice chairman) Mohan Jaikaran,” Rowley said.
He said the airline was now “absolutely bankrupt”.
Rowley who recalled that he had always opposed the Air Jamaica/Caribbean Airlines merger, said as a backbencher in the last PNM administration, he took strong objection to that Government buying into Air Jamaica and had warned that it could come to no good.
Read more: http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/...207306571.html
