Gonsalves: Need for Calm on REDjet

By: - July 10th, 2011

St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has called for moderation in the debate over new low-cost air carrier REDjet. According to Gonsalves, who said he had been following the public debate over the company, he had been “kept out of the loop” of the inter-Caribbean regulatory debate. [Nation News]

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