After spending up to fourteen hours sometimes from leaving one's home to arriving at Point Salines, you find that there are no trolleys available for your luggage.

Not many people travel with $2.00 ECD in change (the price you are charged on arrival to gain access to a trolley). Often these trolleys are not available because if there is no attendant available these trolleys are chained and locked. Very few people will expect to pay for the use of a luggage trolley at an international airport unless some one is offering a special service with the use of it.

Personally, I find the whole idea backward thinking and degrading to a country as forward looking as Grenada. Most people who enter Grenada via Point Salines International Airport leave by the same route so why can’t the Government increase the current exit tax from $50.00 ECD to $55.00 ECD or even $60.00 for that matter, and make trolleys freely available.

I understand that people travelling through the Islands pay a lower rate exit tax; $5.00 could easily be added to what ever the amount is to compensate for any revenue loss by the introduction of a free trolley service.

The other issue I would like to raise is the convenience (toilet) facilities. When we visited Grenada in November/December, 2005 there were no toilet facilities in the departure lounge.

We were told that the toilets were being up-graded.

That was fine but there was no signage to indicate alternative facilities for departing passengers; this was left to the discretion of airport and security staff to allow the usage of the toilets in the arrival lounge. If your face did not fit or someone was in a foul mood, one had to hold their discomforts until they had boarded the aircraft or try another airport personnel who may have been more obliging.

How humiliating!

We revisited Grenada in June this year and on leaving we found the toilets were once again being up-graded with a complete repeat of our previous experience i.e. no official alternative provisions provided. Again for a country as forward looking and thinking as Grenada one expects better.

While it would be wrong of me or any one else to expect the minister to know every thing, the question must be asked: what are the people of Grenada paying an airport manager for? One does not have to be a person of great wisdom; a little common sense and humanity would go a long way. The one thing Grenada does not need is for tourists on leaving to say. “Never again.” Winston Strachan Northampton England, UK.