Port-of-Spain: Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has spent quarter of a million dollars to fly one of its directors — Abhedanand Persad Sharma and his wife, Lisa Ramnarine-Persad — to India to accompany Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on her trip.
Reports indicate that CAL footed bills for the first class airfare, which averaged about TT$250,000, as well as hotel expenses of around TT$75,000.
CAL chairman George Nicholas confirmed he approved the trip on December 30th, 2011.
Nicholas says Sharma is tasked with exploring code-sharing arrangements between CAL and India.
Sharma, who in the past has performed Hindu prayers for the prime minister was not part of the contingent when the $10 million trip was announced. he and his wife left on January 4 and travelled to India, via New York.
(* US$1 – TT$6.4)
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