NCE again St Vincent’s Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves is taking issue with the fuel subsidy the Trinidad and Tobago government grants to national carrier Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL).

Dr Gonsalves, who is chair of the Liat shareholder governments, now up to four with the recent inclusion of the Commonwealth of Dominica, indicates he doesn’t want a fight with the Kamla Persad-Bissessar administration in Port-of-Spain, but would prefer an informed discussion on the matter, a discussion which is “not antagonistic”, but rather conducted in a “co-operative manner”. But obviously CAL’s fuel subsidy is a worrisome issue for the Vincentian Prime Minister because just a month ago, during his Budget presentation in the St Vincent Parliament, Gonsalves listed the fuel subsidy as one of the “central challenges” which Liat faced.