The story
The company was founded on April 13, 2004, as Kuyake Aviation (Surinamese for toucan). At first the company's mission was to provide flight training towards a private or commercial pilot’s license. Kuyake Aviation started with a Cessna 337G Super Skymaster and a Cessna 172R Skyhawk. Later in 2005, a Cessna 206H Stationair was added. In August 2006, a Piper PA-31-350 Chieftain with a panther conversion was bought, followed by another Piper PA-31-350 Chieftain.
In 2009, the main focus shifted from flight training to commercial services. With this change of mission the decision was also made to split the company to Caribbean Commuter Airways N.V. (abbreviated as Caricom Airways N.V.) and Kuyake Aviation Academy.
Caricom Airways had a fleet expansion in 2010 when two Britten-Norman BN-2A Islanders arrived for passenger charters.
Kuyake Aviation was also based at the Zorg en Hoop Airport in Paramaribo, Suriname, and was a modern school facility operating a fleet of Cessna aircraft and simulators.
Caribbean Commuter Airways was divided into Caricom Airways Barbados as a regional charter airline and Caricom Airways Suriname, both using the Caribbean Commuter Airways logo, and operating as a domestic charter airline within Suriname and the Caribbean region, together with running the Caricom Airways Flight Academy effectively with Kuyake Aviation Flight Academy.
In 2011, a cooperation was reached with EZ AIR from Bonaire that allowed Caricom to regularly fly between Bonaire, Curaçao and Aruba and later to Saba and Sint Maarten using two Islanders, eventually taking over one Islander aircraft from Caricom Airways. In 2018, the owners of Caricom Airways moved to Curaçao to open up a new airline and flight school named Dutch Caribbean Islandhopper.
From Wikipedia’s article on Caricom Airways, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3