New initiatives to spur air links development in the Caribbean

Apr 17, 2013

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC –Aviation officials from the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and South America will meet here in May to discuss initiatives aimed at developing air links between the regions, Trinidad and Tobago’s Foreign Minister Winston Dookeran has said.
Addressing the opening of the 14th annual Caribbean Conference on Sustainable Tourism Development (STC-14) here on Monday night, Dookeran, said the meeting would seek to consolidate some of the measures proposed in the San Juan Accord for the regional air transport sector that had been agreed upon five years ago.
He told delegates to the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) organised four-day conference, that the issue had been discussed at the recently held Association of Caribbean States (ACS) meeting in Panama where Colombia had been chosen to chair the committee examining air transport links in the region.

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