KINGSTON - Franklin Hoyer, Regional Director of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), South America Regional Office and Oscar Quesada-Carboni, Deputy Regional Director on Tuesday, October 20, 2015 paid a courtesy call on the Hon. Annette Ferguson, Minister with responsibility for civil aviation in Guyana.
The high-level delegation was here to obtain support from the government for ICAO compliance, and to urge that Guyana as a signatory to the Chicago Convention focuses its efforts on achieving an acceptable level of effective implementation of the ICAO’s Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs).
SARPsare the technical specifications promulgated by ICAO with the aim of achieving the highest practicable degree of uniformity in regulations, standards, procedures and organization in relation to the safe and orderly development of civil aviation.
Mr. Hoyer expressed ICAO’s concern at Guyana’s poor level of effective implementation of the ICAO’s SARPs, noting that over the years several technical assistance missions from ICAO would have been deployed to Guyana. However, Guyana has failed to raise its level of ICAO’s compliance.
The delegation also briefed the Minister on the ‘No Country Left Behind’ initiative, which aims at providing technical assistance for ICAO’s Member States with poor levels of effective implementation of the ICAO SARPs.
Officials from the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) were also part of the discussion including Chaitrani Heeralall, Director General (acting); Amanza Desir, General Counsel; Saheed Sulaman, Air Transport Officer and Abraham Doris, Aviation Safety Inspector.
