Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les is call­ing for the res­ig­na­tion of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism Min­is­ter Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj, ac­cus­ing him of fail­ing to act in the best in­ter­est of cit­i­zens fol­low­ing a pro­posed hike in do­mes­tic air­fares.

Beck­les is­sued the call on Fri­day as she strong­ly crit­i­cised the Gov­ern­ment’s con­sid­er­a­tion of high­er peak-pe­ri­od tick­et prices on the air­bridge.

On Thurs­day, Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism Min­is­ter Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj an­nounced that a pro­pos­al has been put be­fore Cab­i­net which could see mem­bers of the pub­lic pay­ing be­tween $960 and $1,000 to trav­el be­tween Trinidad and To­ba­go via Caribbean Air­lines dur­ing peak pe­ri­ods, as Gov­ern­ment con­sid­ers in­tro­duc­ing un­sub­sidised flights on the do­mes­tic air­bridge.