Friday, April 30, 2010

The Hewanorra Airport debate: when should we build?

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8 comments:

LLL said...

Mr. P Jose, this article which you have inscribed from the pits of your New York delapidated piss-hall shack is pure crap. Your main objective is to take shots at the opposition to satisfy your own personal vendetta. There is no need to go through your personal political failures.
TTP: The Hewanorra Airport complex or facility has gone through many renovations (projects) in the past few years. The airport is NOT in such a deplorable state that it requires a complete overhall to the cost of $450mil. It is a huge undertaking of our financial responsibility at this time. As one writer wrote, people don't visit us because of our airport; simply put, a multi-million dollar airport is not going to make a difference in our arrivals. There is much more work to do here in St. Lucia before the airport reconstruction project. For one, that proposed money should be invested in a four lane highway linking the north & south of the country.

Corruption!!.....what was revealed in the past weeks with A&M as the preferred company in the airport project is a prelude to corruption. It's a heads up by the opposition; it tells me that they are doing their job to protect the credibility of this country from those insane authorities who believe in "The Taking of "Pelam-1-2-3". In your town, you should know what I mean.

April 30, 2010 at 9:56 PM
Anonymous said...

We need this upgrade, now. And shut-up LLL.

May 1, 2010 at 12:05 AM
Anonymous said...

don't worry the opposition forces not united on that. SLP and One trying their best to prevent it from the get go LPM say they for it but with condition. What that telling you is that there is confusion and they don't speak in one voice. This will work to the advantage of the UWP. I say build baby build.

May 1, 2010 at 6:46 AM
Anonymous said...

LLL, what stupidness you talking? really?. If St. Lucia has so many hotel projects on the way and the torusim industry is growing how, where we parking planes?. Right now on sundays planes have to be in a holding pattern in the air because the airport is congested. The airport needs a parallel taxiway because having a plane taxi on the runway takes time and keeps flights in the air or the ground longer. Then you have the problem of a virgin 747 landing with 405pax. British aiways 777 with almost 300 seats and don't even get into the American carriers some of them having more than one flighta day from certain cities. The airport can't handle it. Have you landed in St. Lucia in the winter and see lines outside of the terminal, people waiting for immigration and customs?. Have you felt the heat inside there. Have you seen the state of the only 2 baggage things? ( forgot the name). The things are full and its a mess looking for bags. Watch our 2 biggest competitors in the region barbados and antigua there are spending millions to rebuild their airports and even put jet bridges into them. You think airlines will want to fly into an airport thinking that they aircraft will be delayed? NOPE. The tower needs to be upgraded with proper modern navigational equipment like ILS, Yes what Barbados and Kingston and Port of Spain has, but we don't. So if the weather is really bad our tourist then have to divert to an island that has better weather or the equipment. When its raining do you really want tourist to be standing in the rain or walking out in the rain. We need jet bridges. The private jet industry is big money, we don't have space at UVF for them to park. If they going to the grenadines they go parking in Barbados because no parking in St. Lucia. Then we don't have enough checking counters all airlines and cramped up together. The airport was built to handle 300,000 people it now handles 460,000 ( last year numbers) and 56,000 in-transits. Now that's over 500,000 passengers. It doesn't need an upgrade?? Our tourism industry is going forward not backward, if its that there will never be a right time to under go such a project. All the islands are upgrading their airports and we still stuck playing politics. You have to make people feel comfortable and the airlines will push for better facilities... maybe in 2030 UVF LLL would like to see UVF upgraded. Old thinking i tell you'll.

May 1, 2010 at 9:43 AM
Anonymous said...

I don't think LLL is that naive to believe the airport does not need some form of upgrading. From time to time upgrading and expansion is necessary (but in moderation). I was in Barbados recently and disembarkment or embarkment is still done on the tarmac - that's what defines our culture from the more sophisticated countries.
LLL concern is the process of selecting the companies for reconstruction. SLASPA did a poor job in handling the process which consequently led to the exposure of political contamination.

In any event, LLL is correct for the writer to attack the opposition instead of focusing on his subject..."When should we build".

May 2, 2010 at 7:21 AM
Anonymous said...

You know that Barbados is in the processing of installing jet bridges right? at a cost of 40 million USD. And the their terminalw as just recently built. Antigua is in the process of building new terminal with jet bridges. And trinidad, kingston and montegobay already has. Just got to go to be modern.

May 2, 2010 at 8:34 AM
Anonymous said...

Peter Josie every St. Lucian knows that you are a CORRUPT person. Up to now you have not explain the STABEX funds during the time you were the minister of Agriculture in 1979-82.Why do you have to write so much crap?
Now St. Lucians be wise Rick Wayne once said that St. Lucia is an island of JACK ASSES. Let's show him that we are not.The problem is not refurbishment of the airport but rather the corrupt way the Government wants to handle the matter.Let' stop that nonesense.
Sam Flood

May 2, 2010 at 4:50 PM
Anonymous said...

LLL talkin shate an the writer is right cause opposition dont want this project to go down for many reason its all politics an personal stuff im sure slp would love to be the ones responcible for giving st lucia an international up to date airport but anywho i say build it lets go think of the jobs it will create building it an mentaining it i know alot of my friends from school who works there now an alot more can work there even i who is a aviation fantatic can work there lets go for it baby

May 3, 2010 at 6:43 AM

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