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In a March 29, 2019, letter signed
by Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer, Paul Reece, said, the airline,
which has been trying to recover after
one of its planes crashed-landed at
Guyana’s Cheddi Jagan International
Airport in November 2018, thanked
employees for their “service, loyalty
and dedication.”
He told the employees that the
board of directors of Fly Jamaica that
due to lack of aircraft and the impact
that is had on the company’s financial
position, “we have no alternative
but to make all employees redundant
effective, March 31, 2019.”
Reece told workers while the company
is still committed to meeting its
financial obligations to them for the
period, “November 2018 to date, we ask
you to allow us more time to do so,”
Fly Jamaica Airways, which had
direct flights between Guyana and
Jamaica, was certified by the Jamaica
Civil Aviation Authority (JCAA) in
September 2012 and made its inaugural
flight from Kingston to New
York’s John F Kennedy International
Airport, in the United States on Feb.,
14, 2013.
Trinidad
Trinidad and Tobago is moving
to sign the Economic Partnership
Agreement between CARIFORUM and
the United Kingdom (CARIFORUMUK,
EPA), one of Trinidad and Tobago’s
long standing trading partners.
This was revealed by Trinidad and
Tobago’s Minister of Trade and Industry,
Paula Gopee-Scoon.
She said local businesses will continue
to benefit from the duty-free
export of goods and the preferential
treatment of services and exports to
the United Kingdom.
In a statement, Gopee-Scoon said
Cabinet approved the agreement and
authorized its signature by His Excellency
Orville London, High Commissioner
of the Republic
of Trinidad and Tobago
to the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland.
She said signature to this agreement
will ensure continuity of trade
with the United Kingdom and safeguard
Trinidad and Tobago’s interests.
The Ministry of Trade explained
that the CARIFORUM-UK EPA provides
continued access to the UK market
when the UK exits the European
Union, the so-called Brexit process.
On March 22, 2019, nine CARICOM
countries signed the trade continuity
agreement with the United Kingdom
that will allow those countries
to trade as they do now without any
additional barriers or tariffs
Among them were Barbados,
Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana,
Jamaica, St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
— Compiled by Azad Ali
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