Luther Orlando Charles, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Domestic Airways Incorporated, was yesterday given a week to pay a $200,000 fine for failing to provide an Occupational Safety and Health Officer with information about the accident that led to the death of pilot Randy Liverpool.
Charles on Wednesday had pleaded guilty to the charge, which stated that between February 20th and February 25th, 2019, he failed to provide the Ministry of Social Protection’s Occupation Safety and Health Officer Dwain Vyfhuis with information in relation to the accident that led to the death of Liverpool.
His sentencing was deferred by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan.
Prior to his sentencing yesterday, Charles requested a week to get all the needed documents.
In fining him, the Chief Magistrate said that the court considered that he made the undertaking to produce the documents.
Charles is also expected to make another court appearance on September 4th as it relates to the charge that he, between February 20th and February 25th, at Georgetown, being the employer of Liverpool, a pilot, failed to keep a register of accidents as required by law.
On Wednesday, he had pleaded guilty to two other charges—failing to give notice of the accident that resulted in Liverpool’s death, and failing to make an application for a registration of an industrial establishment to the Chief Officer of the Ministry of Protection’s Occupation Safety and Health Department within 30 days of his company commencing operations. He was later fined $50,000 for the failure to give notice of the accident, with an alternative of a default sentence of three weeks in prison, and $25,000 for failure to make an application to the Occupational Safety and Health Department, with an alternative of a sentence of three weeks in prison if he defaults.
