The airport was named for Ebenezer Theodore Joshua, the first chief minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

The airport formerly housed the St. Vincent Outstation of the Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation Authority.

[2] When Saint Vincent's Argyle International Airport opened on 14 February 2017,[3] the E.T.

The Government planned to close the airport to make room for a new city at Arnos Vale.

On September 14, 2020, Finance Minister Camillo Gonsalves, in a Facebook post, provided an update on the conversion of the old ET Joshua Airport terminal building to a “modern retail and entertainment plaza”, known as “The Joshua Centre”.