LIAT employee charged in Dominica with obstruction of justice

by Paul Charles
Caribbean Net News Dominica Correspondent

Tuesday, August 9, 2005

ROSEAU, Dominica: Police charged one LIAT employee on Monday for obstruction of justice and is seeking another worker who they claim did not comply with their request to board Haitian deportees on LIAT flight 500 destined for Antigua on July 31.

Police spokesman inspector David Andrew said the two men failed to allow the deportation of a group of Haitians who arrived here recently without proper document.

The traffic officer, who the police picked up at work on Monday at the Melville Hall Airport -- the scene of the incident -- was later bailed by LIAT (Dominica) manager Gerard Cools-Lartigue. 

The other traffic officer being sought by the police is vacationing in St Lucia and is expected on the island on Tuesday, a LIAT official told CMC. 

A senior officer at the local LIAT office, who wanted to remain anonymous, said the staff is worried over the latest development, saying the men told the immigration officer they would facilitate the deportation on a later flight.

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