"The EC­CAA there­fore in­structs Cari­com Air­ways to im­me­di­ate­ly dis­con­tin­ue its op­er­a­tions un­til such time that it has been is­sued with the ap­pro­pri­ate AOC by the EC­CAA," the au­thor­i­ty's act­ing di­rec­tor gen­er­al Don­ald McPhail wrote to the air­line's chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer Ro­ry Chin-A-Kwie. The EC­CAA cor­re­spon­dence con­firmed what St Vin­cent and the Grenadines Prime Min­is­ter Dr Ralph Gon­salves had been telling St Lu­cia's Tourism and Avi­a­tion Min­is­ter Allen Chas­tanet for weeks.