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By Tracey Khan – Drakes

Minister of Tourism [ag), Irfaan Ali

Minister of Tourism (ag), Irfaan Ali

 

Minister of Tourism (ag), Irfaan Ali has reaffirmed that the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion project “is here to stay and it must be done.”

He believes the project is s vital to the overall development of the aviation sector.

 

He made it unequivocally clear that the expansion of the airport is critical to national development as he pointed out Government’s inability to expand the airport project due to the opposition’s “nonsensical position.”

 

He said the question should no longer linger as to whether this project should be done, as he pointed to the increase in airlines into the country.

 

“This aviation sector cannot grow, it would never grow if we cannot expand that airport….I would go beyond every boundary to ensure that this project is completed. It is far too important in our national interest and the tourism sector and the aviation sector to be left as a shadow issues.”

 

This he highlighted is hampering other major airlines from entering the local market because the current airport does not meet international standards.

“All the carriers are changing their equipment for larger planes. You’re not gonna have them landing at that airstrip that we have there….unless you’re able to expand that airstrip and expand the facility we have we are going to stagnate the sector.”

 

He attributed the hassles passengers are facing. “Lining up on to the sun is as a direct result of some nonsensical non thinking persons in the political landscape of the country, who does not have their interest at heart”.

 

Meanwhile, he cautioned against exploiting passengers due to the challenges encountered with other airlines and noted the sudden increase in ticket prices here.

“We believe that airlines that are in the sector have a responsibility for the sector and should not exploit circumstances and situation to an economic benefit.”

 

Ali clarified that he supports a model that has economic gains for any airline, but emphasized that support will not be given to a market that exploits passengers in a time when the demand is high and capacity is low.

 

When asked how Government intends to deal with this old problem of increased airline fares, Ali stated that a lot has been done in terms of airlift capacity “but our travelling population has also grown”.

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How do they live with themselves?

 

JULY 19, 2014 · BY STAFF WRITER

 

Dear Editor,

As the latest Jagdeo exposé sullies the senses and sensibilities, so much is uncovered. Sure, a slip shows, stray underwear lace and frills (don’t ask which kind) escape, and there is a peculiar rancid nakedness exhibited in full colour before jaded onlookers.

Here the country has myriad citizens for whom the monthly light bill is a torture; here are families by the thousands who struggle with patching together the daily minibus fare; and here is where a hundred dollars for the necessity of cellphone credit is almost always a desperate testing out-of-reach moment.

Here, too, is staggering youth unemployment, food beyond the outstretched fingertips and shrivelled cardboard tongues of the miserable hungry and their wretched children. Here there is so much more that knots the nerves and clenches at the gut with implacable, remorseless ferocity.

And yet calculating leaders, and their craven godless, conscienceless cohorts – all repugnant beyond words – sit and scheme on how to fix themselves lavishly, how to set themselves high on the hog, how to rip-off and gouge endlessly at the fruits of office and the fat of the land.

It might be fine for the pathologically greedy, the political mobsters, and the bureaucratic gangsters to connive at these things, and then get away with it all, but how do they face the nation and spew the utter drivel about mobility, prosperity, and unity? How do they face the multitude of weak and poor in this society? How do they face their own supporters, those with a brain in the head? Most intriguing of all is how do they live with themselves and face their children, their friends, their neighbours? That is unless these, too, are part of the skulking, opportunistic pack at the financial trough extracting their bounty.

When I consider all of these abominations, I come to an inescapable conclusion. It is that the opposition is more patient than me; it is that the oppressed citizens of this country are more tolerant, by far, than me. And it is that both opposition and people are more understanding and better than me. Clearly, when looked at cumulatively, the obscene extravagances are more than malignancies and monstrosities. They are all of this; and then there is the irrefutable evidence of an incurable sickness that affects us for simply sharing the same air with those who contaminate it.

 

Yours faithfully, GHK Lall

http://www.stabroeknews.com/20.../letters/07/19/live

Mitwah

Increase in what airlines? where?

 

Dynamic is a goadie from Jerry Gouveia and a charter service, EZJET 2.0.

 

Fly away Jamaica is another Goadie charter service. 

 

Copa, Caribbean and Surinam airlines are the only real airlines and there is enough space and airpote to deal with dem. We already have a goadie at skeldon we should not spend anymore money on PPP bullshit projects.

FM

 

Originally Posted by Cobra:

When Irfaan Ali speaks, you listen.

Just remember, the government under the PPP/crooks have  INVALIDATED  Birth Certificates that are not 6 months new. Jagdeo's house is a tourist attraction. What has Irfaart Aligator done for tourism?

Mitwah
Originally Posted by Cobra:

When Irfaan Ali speaks, you listen.

And then you laugh as the posters on a certain aviation forum are doing.

 

Yes having FOUR jetways and a longer runway makes sense.  Let the PPP down size this project and then they will get support.

 

Having said that when is Irfan going to understand that a long runway doesn't attract airlines.  Passengers do.  The only lucrative route into GEO is from JFK and no one is flying jumbos on that route, or will ever do so.  Even high density routes like those to Puerto Rico and the DR don't attract that size of plane out of JFK.

 

BA can land their planes at GEO if they wanted to.  They already fly to St Kitts, which has a runway which is only 500 feet longer.  They pay $1 million/year to BA for that service though.  Is the PPP going to do so?

FM
Originally Posted by HM_Redux:

Increase in what airlines? where?

 

Dynamic is a goadie from Jerry Gouveia and a charter service, EZJET 2.0.

 

Fly away Jamaica is another Goadie charter service. 

 

Copa, Caribbean and Surinam airlines are the only real airlines and there is enough space and airpote to deal with dem. We already have a goadie at skeldon we should not spend anymore money on PPP bullshit projects.

Having 3 or 4 jetways might make sense, as does lengthening the runway.  Had it been longer the CAL crash wouldn't have happened.

 

But this huge white elephant which the PPP is building, and the rants that GEO will become a major hub is what makes Irfaan look like the bumbling country bumpkin which he is.

FM

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