Barbados isn’t planning to sell any part of Grantley Adams International Airport and it certainly isn’t going to privatize the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
That assurance has come from Prime Minister Freundel Stuart, who said in Toronto yesterday that any decision about privatizing the airport would have to be made by the Cabinet and as its chairman, he knew of no plan to place it into private hands.
“That decision would have to be made by the Cabinet and that can’t be made in any secret place,” Stuart said in response to a question at a news conference in Toronto where he was the featured speaker at the annual Errol Barrow Memorial Dinner in Canada’s largest city.
“I don’t know of any plan by the present Government to sell off any part of Grantley Adams International Airport.
“I know, though, that as part of the whole mix of current economic solutions that Barbados has faced and other Caribbean countries have faced, that mention has from time to time be made in discussions with officials and so on that, for example, airports in London are privately owned,” he added.
