Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kerrie Symmonds says he does not believe Barbadian Carl ‘Alff” Padmore was in any way being a troublemaker when he was asked to leave an Air Canada flight over the weekend.
In an interview with the Midweek Nation yesterday, Symmonds confirmed that the Government had intervened on Padmore’s behalf after his behaviour came into question and he was asked to leave the aircraft.
Padmore returned home from Canada yesterday, on a Caribbean Airlines flight via Trinidad and Tobago.
In a video that went viral, he was seen being asked to leave an Air Canada aircraft in Canada, and vociferously expressing disappointment in the way he had been treated.
“I do not think a reasonable understanding of Mr Padmore’s questioning, howsoever persistent it may have been, could be that he was a troublemaker. A troublemaker is not looking out for the interest and well-being of people on board an aircraft. From a distance, I believe there was a rush to judgement,” Symmonds said. (BA)
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