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| The Government of Barbados issued a statement on Wednesday denying Prime Minister (PM) Mia Mottley was involved in an incident at the Eugene F. Correia “Ogle” International Airport on Sunday. According to stories in other local and regional media outlets, a Guyana Defence Force’s Skyvan plane carrying President Irfaan Ali and PM Mottley, on Sunday evening, slipped off the taxiway.
But a statement coming out of Barbados said, “The Prime Minister’s Office wishes to make it absolutely clear to Barbadians that at no time during her recent overseas trip was Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley on a plane that was involved in any accident.” Meanwhile Ogle Airport Inc spokesman Christopher ‘Kit’ Nascimento confirmed the incident which the PM wants to have known “It is fake news!” The passengers on the plane, reportedly, were able to disembark safely, and according to the statement out of Barbados, what occurred on the PM’s visit was “no different from what occurred on previous visits.” Government officials, including the Minister of Public Works and the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCCA), have been tight-lipped. Stabroek News has, however, reported sources told the newspaper the plane which landed from Brazil was taxiing on the airport’s main runway to the terminal when one of its wheels went off the concrete and on to the grass, and that a probe is underway. The two were returning from a state visit to Roraima, Brazil. |
