Raphael John-Lall

Af­ter the nar­ra­tive that the last Gov­ern­ment cre­at­ed to close down the Petrotrin re­fin­ery, econ­o­mist Dr Vanus James is warn­ing the pub­lic to be wary of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) Gov­ern­ment’s crit­i­cisms of the fi­nan­cial per­for­mance of state-owned Caribbean Air­lines (CAL).

CAL made its first flight in Jan­u­ary 2007 and al­most 20 years af­ter it was born out of the clo­sure of the now de­funct British West In­dies Air­ways Ltd (BWIA), fi­nan­cial trou­bles still dog the trou­bled air­line ac­cord­ing to the Gov­ern­ment.