The CJIA expansion must go ahead, drugs to ship and money to steal.
Dear Editor,
The Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion project will be going ahead as planned. This is the kind of vehicle we need in Guyana to fill the pockets of our respective politicians and friends and to enhance cocaine shipments . We have been stagnated for such a long time that many people just cannot get out of their inertia to increase cocaine exports.
Guyana has changed over the last decade more cocaine is being shipped. As a boy, the sight of an aircraft used to fascinate me. Now it is the norm because I know that aircraft is taking cocaine to North America and increasing our GNP. I remember too, airport visits used to be quite novel – now it is out of necessity to put cocaine on the aircraft.
We all know that the political opposition voted down the entire transport section budgetary allocation of $5.6 billion for the Public Works Ministry. What this now means is more duress for areas such as the Ogle International Airport expansion project, the purchasing of key equipment for the CJIA and the CJIA expansion project, along with repairs and maintenance to hinterland airstrips that would be adversely affected. After all we still don’t have radar in the country, we don’t have an ILS system, we only have one VOR, our airstrips are unlighted and unpaved, this is not conductive to cocaine shipments.
In this point of air travel, gone are the days when Ogle used to be remote and agrarian. The place is just like any other airport, just teeming with activities and drug smugglers.
It was reported that the transport minister indicated that there is some money from last year’s $20 million that was approved and advanced by the National Assembly. The minister also explained that the project, in many ways has started – the contractor is on the ground and loads of equipment are already arriving. How can we stop now or even wait? Our cocaine needs to be shipped now and BK needs to sell stone to prevent the country from getting Goadee!
It is vital that Guyana’s capacity to accommodate larger categories of aircraft and ship larger loads of cocaine be on board. This will result in the country’s potential as a hub for flights to and from North and South America and further afield, whereby enhancing our distribution of cocaine capacity.
Yours sincerely,
Some Idiot.