The Government of Barbados is urging more Caribbean countries to consider investing in Leeward Islands Air Transport (LIAT) even as the airline continues to reel from losses amounting to millions annually. Minister of Tourism and International Transport for Barbados Richard Sealy, who was speaking to Jamaican journalists at a Sandals press conference in the eastern Caribbean Island on Friday, said that it is “extremely difficult” to run the problem-plagued airline, which has its headquarters in Antigua & Barbuda. Barbados is the airline’s largest shareholder with 49.5 per cent, Antigua & Barbuda 13 per cent, St Vincent approximately 12 per cent, and Dominica less than 10 per cent.
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