Asha Javeed

Caribbean Air­lines' chair­man George Nicholas has ten­dered his res­ig­na­tion from the state-owned na­tion­al car­ri­er.Min­is­ter of Trans­port De­vant Ma­haraj con­firmed Nicholas' res­ig­na­tion last night."Yes. I can con­firm this. I am in re­ceipt of his let­ter but I can­not say any­thing more," he told the Guardian last night.Ma­haraj de­clined to give Nicholas' rea­son for his res­ig­na­tion.Nicholas, in an in­ter­view fol­low­ing Ma­haraj's ap­point­ment as his new line min­is­ter, said that he shared a more cor­dial re­la­tion­ship with Ma­haraj than with for­mer line min­is­ter Jack Warn­er.Nicholas could not be reached for com­ment last night on his sud­den res­ig­na­tion.His ten-month old ap­point­ment was lit­tered with head­lines-from the con­tro­ver­sial fir­ing of for­mer chief ex­ec­u­tive Cap­tain Ian Brun­ton, a pub­lic spat with Warn­er over the is­sue of ATR pur­chase, the ac­quisi­ton of Air Ja­maica routes and air­craft and more re­cent­ly, the en­try of low-cost car­ri­er RED­jet to the lo­cal mar­ket and more re­cent­ly the run­way ex­cur­sion of BW 523 at the Ched­di Jag­gan In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port in Guyana.Nicholas' re­la­tion­ship with his board was al­so con­tentious. On two oc­ca­sions, once with Warn­er and the oth­er with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, the board claimed they could not work with him.CAL's Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Man­ag­er Lau­ra As­b­jornsen said she was un­aware of Nicholas' res­ig­na­tion.