EDITORIAL: PM Mitchell’s gaffe on funding LIAT

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - FRESH FROM his electoral victory in Grenada’s February 19 parliamentary election, in which his People’s National Party captured all 15 seats, Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell chose to go public last week with a rather surprising negative message about the sole intra-regional airline, LIAT. Without any known outstanding dispute between his less than two-month-old administration and the management and/or main shareholder governments of LIAT, Mitchell told a Press conference last Wednesday during a private visit to Barbados that there would be “no funding” by Grenada for the regional airline “unless it becomes efficient . . . .”