LIAT Board Refuses To Accept Resignation Of CEO, Says Antigua PM

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, Apr. 12, (CMC) – The Board of Directors of the regional airline, LIAT, has not accepted the resignation of the airline’s Chief Executive Officer, David Evans, Antigua Prime Minister, Gaston Browne, has said.

Evans, who joined the airline in 2014, had, on Monday, tendered his resignation, following what informed sources said, was a “stormy board of directors meeting “in Barbados, last Thursday.

Prime Minister Browne, whose government is one of the four shareholder governments of the financially troubled airline, said he has been informed that the airline’s board of directors had not accepted the resignation.

He said the issue will be discussed, on Wednesday, at a meeting of the airline and the possibility of the British national, with more than 35 years experience in senior roles within the aviation industry, remaining on the job.

“I was told that his resignation has not been formally accepted and I understand there will be a meeting tomorrow to reconcile their differences. So, perhaps, after all, he may remain with the airline,” Browne said on Observer radio.