Public Works Ministry awaiting clarifications from REDjet to refund passengers

The Public Works Ministry is awaiting clarifications from the defunct REDjet before payments can be made to the 2,500-odd passengers who were affected by the collapse of the regional airline.

The ministry, which has responsibility for Transport, has been working with the regional airline office in Barbados to ensure that the 846 requests for repayments from locals materialise. Persons had also made applications for their refunds via the airline soon after it collapsed this year.

Principal Assistant Secre-tary at the Works Ministry, Derrick Jodhan told Stabroek News that the US$200,000 ($40 million) bond which the airline lodged with the authorities here when it