Bridgetown.
A day after Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler, stated in the House of Assembly during the 2012 Financial Statement and Budgetary Proposals that the Government of Barbados did not reneged on any promise to render financial assistance to grounded low cost carrier Redjet.
Robbie Burns the founder and business development director of the airline has instructed the company's lawyer to examine the possibilities of suiting the Government for reneging on its promise to assist the company.
During the Budgetary Proposals Sinckler said, the Government had given potentially million of dollars of dollars in concessions to Redjet upfront and still made efforts to get the airline through and early and difficult financial period but in the end, the company did have enough of its own private capital to survive.
According to Burns, the airline could not get a licence from the Government to operate for eight months and received licences from 11 countries before they were granted one from the Government of barbados.
"The delays in Barbados were policy delays, political delays by the Ministry of International Business and Transport. This was done despite a promise made by the Cabinet" Burns said.
"In short, Redjet did plan and waited as long as it could but the fact is the government fail to deliver on its promise for route rigths and caused tremendous damage to the economy, the jobs on nearly 100 people and the tourism sector", an angry Burns said.
He stated there were more to the rumours and half truths about Redjet than the Government wanted the people to know.
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