Even as the Air­ports Au­thor­i­ty of T&T (AATT) strug­gles to pay out­stand­ing wages and pay­ments owed to em­ploy­ees, it has writ­ten off a $205 mil­lion debt owed by Caribbean Air­lines (CAL).

Rais­ing the is­sue dur­ing Mon­day night’s Sen­ate de­bate on the Fi­nance (Sup­ple­men­tary Ap­pro­pri­a­tion) (Fi­nan­cial Year 2025) Bill, Min­is­ter of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion Eli Za­k­our said de­spite this debt write-off, the au­thor­i­ty is now seek­ing a $45 mil­lion al­lo­ca­tion to meet re­cur­rent ex­pen­di­ture.

These funds are need­ed to set­tle ar­rears fol­low­ing re­cent wage ne­go­ti­a­tions with the Es­tate Po­lice As­so­ci­a­tion, which would ben­e­fit 444 cur­rent and for­mer em­ploy­ees.