The airline known as British West Indian Airways Limited, (BWIA) or fondly referred to as BWee by Caribbean natives was the brain child of a gentleman named Lowell Yerex who was born in New Zealand. The airline’s inception started out of the need for air transport between Britain and her colonies in the West Indies in the late 1930s, in particular Trinidad and Tobago. The question was, who had the entrepreneurial flair and the knowledge of flying to set up a Caribbean airline from scratch?