300 MORE seats for Tobago Tobago News Government is to provide $1.85 million to support a twice-weekly service by national airline BWIA West Indies Ltd between Crown Point Airport in Tobago and Dulles airport in Washington. In disclosing this at a post Cabinet press conference at Whitehall last week Thursday Prime Minister Patrick Manning said Cabinet had accepted the recommendation forwarded by the Standing Committee on Tourism from its Airlift Sub Committee. He said the new BWIA service will begin on October 27 and will provide 300 new seats to Tobago. The money will be used for marketing and advertising Tobago as a tourist destination for the coming winter. Manning also announced that the Antigua-based Caribbean Star had an application before the Air Transport Licensing Authority (ATLA) for a temporary licence to service the Trinidad/Tobago air bridge. He said this recommendation also came from Tobago hoteliers on the committee who were suffering as a result of the current problems being experienced by BWIA on the air bridge. Manning said when the Standing Committee met in Tobago earlier in the week the hoteliers raised this problem and requested Government to do something about it. However, he added, the matter was in the hands of ATLA which was responsible for granting licences to air carriers. The Prime Minister said the promised reduction in the Trinidad/Tobago airfare from $300 to $200 would be addressed in the 2002/2003 Budget. The owner of Roger's Trinbago Site: Roj (Roger James) *************************************************** escape email mailto:ejames@escape.ca Trinbago site: http://www.tntisland.com CBC Website http://www.tntisland.com/caribbeanbrassconnection/ The Trinbago Site of the Week: (TnT Medical Assn.) http://www.tntmedical.com/ (Trinidad & Tobago Medical Association) courtesy of Roj Trinbago Website & TnT Web Directory Roj's Trinbago Website: http://www.tntisland.com TnT Web Directory: http://search.co.tt *********************************************************