Gail Alexan­der

Cab­i­net is to­day ex­pect­ed to ex­am­ine a rec­om­men­da­tion for the Caribbean Air­lines board to be changed, it was con­firmed yes­ter­day.The CAL board has been in sus­pen­sion re­cent­ly, af­ter sim­mer­ing is­sues among board mem­bers.Board mem­bers have in­formed the line min­is­ter, Jack Warn­er, of the sit­u­a­tion and giv­en re­ports to Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar al­so.Warn­er said re­cent­ly that he had put the mat­ter in the hands of the Prime Min­is­ter who re­turned from Lon­don on Mon­day.

Board sources said at least five mem­bers of the board were "to­tal­ly op­posed" to the board's chair­man and "there can be no heal­ing in the sit­u­a­tion."CAL sources said the sit­u­a­tion need­ed to be dealt with ur­gent­ly since it was af­fect­ing the air­line's op­er­a­tions.They said is­sues be­ing de­layed as a re­sult of the im­passe in­clud­ed the full con­sum­ma­tion of the CAL/Air Ja­maica arrange­ment.This is the sec­ond time is­sues are plagu­ing the CAL board which was stymied by prob­lems be­tween board chair­man George Nicholas and Warn­er soon af­ter in­cep­tion.That im­passe, con­cern­ing the ac­qui­si­tion of ATR air­craft, was even­tu­al­ly set­tled.