Egbert Fields appointed GCAA Director-General
LIEUTENANT Colonel (Ret’d) Egbert Fields has been appointed Director-General of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority, and will assume the position from August 1, 2016, according to GCCA sources.Fields was highlighted as a possible candidate for the Director-General post of the GCCA earlier this year, as he is quite adept in this field.
Fields, known as ‘Eggy’, has several years of experience in the aviation field where he served as a pilot in the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), an inspector with the Caribbean Aviation Safety and Security Oversight System (CASSOS), as flight operations and oversight manager of the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority and transnational inspector for the Regional Aviation Safety Oversight.
The post of Director-General became vacant after Zulficar Mohamed retired in May last year. Since then, Chitrani Heralall assumed the role of Director-General (acting).
Heralall was also another potential candidate for this position alongside Fields and about three other candidates. However Heralall will be assuming another senior position at another location while Fields will take up the Director-General position in the GCAA.
A newly reconfigured and reintroduced Board of the GCAA had set appointing a Director-General as one of its priorities during its two-year tenure.
Attempts to contact Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson and Junior Minster of Public Infrastructure Annette Ferguson for a comment on this matter proved futile as numerous phone calls went unanswered.
