BAS­SETERRE-It's a bird! It's a plane! It's...Ki­rani James? The Prime Min­is­ter of An­tigua says he wants LI­AT to name one of its planes af­ter an Olympic run­ner who gave the is­land of Grena­da its first gold medal. Bald­win Spencer says nam­ing an air­craft af­ter James would be a fit­ting trib­ute. The 19-year-old won the 400 me­tres fi­nal last Mon­day in Lon­don. James was al­so ap­plaud­ed for his sports­man­ship af­ter he trad­ed name tags with South Africa's Os­car Pis­to­rius, a dou­ble am­putee.

Spencer made the sug­ges­tion while speak­ing Fri­day at an as­sem­bly of the Or­ga­ni­za­tion of East­ern Caribbean States. An­tigua is a ma­jor share­hold­er of LI­AT along with oth­er Caribbean is­lands. LI­AT re­leased a state­ment ear­li­er on Fri­day say­ing it plans to ho­n­our James, but did not pro­vide de­tails.

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