Vincentian Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves is now seeking talks with the Kamla Persad-Bissessar-led coalition People’s Partnership administration in Trinidad, over the fuel subsidy Port of Spain provides to the national carrier Caribbean Airlines (CAL).
Gonsalves says he wants to engage in discussions, not a fight with Trinidad and Tobago sine he has now received a legal opinion on the matter .
Gonsalves contends that the fuel subsidy given to CAL contravenes the treaty governing the Caribbean Community (Caricom) to which both countries belong.
St Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica are the main shareholders of the regional airline, LIAT, and Gonsalves, who is chair of LIAT shareholder governments, said the legal opinion supports his view that the subsidy contravenes the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas.
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