Portfolio shift: Caribbean Airlines now falls under Transport Ministry

Caribbean Air­lines Lim­it­ed now falls un­der the Min­istry of Trans­port and Civ­il Avi­a­tion.

A le­gal no­tice is­sued by the Of­fice of the Pres­i­dent of Trinidad and To­ba­go con­firms Sen­a­tor Eli Za­k­our, in his role as Min­is­ter, has been as­signed re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for the air­line with ef­fect from April 2, 2026.

The move re­moves over­sight from Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo, Min­is­ter of Fi­nance.

Caribbean Air­lines had fall­en un­der the Min­istry of Fi­nance even be­fore Colm Im­bert took of­fice in 2015, mean­ing the arrange­ment spanned suc­ces­sive ad­min­is­tra­tions.

The re­as­sign­ment was made un­der Sec­tion 79(1) of the Con­sti­tu­tion, with Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo act­ing on the ad­vice of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.