LIAT to present summary of legal opinion to Trinidad PM

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC – Shareholder governments of the regional airline, LIAT, have agreed to provide a summary of a legal opinion to Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar regarding the "unfair” subsidy given to the state-owned Caribbean Airlines (CAL), Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves said here Tuesday. Gonsalves told a news conference that while Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica and his country, the main shareholders of the Antigua-based airline do not want a fight with Port of Spain on the issue, they were nonetheless confident of their position ahead of talks with the Trinidad and Tobago leader later this month. “I have received the go ahead from shareholder governments that we provide a summary of the legal opinion,” he said.