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differences as had arisen between the administration and NATA members were being played down with two key government officials, Minister in the Ministry of Public Infrastructure Annette Ferguson, who has responsibility for the aviation sector and Director of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Lt Colonel (retd) Egbert Fields not only addressing the NATA forum, but also, in the process, speaking warmly about NATA and its work over the past year.
The NATA President, meanwhile, received generous acclaim from the gathering that included a retinue of private sector officials for a presentation that focused unerringly at a more egalitarian management regime at Ogle. Signalling that NATA continues to believe that what one member described as “Correia control” of the airport remains a stumbling block to stability, Arjoon-Martins also repeated previously made calls for what she had described as the present airport management’s “abuse of a dominant position.”
NATA Vice President and Roraima Airways CEO Gerry Gouveia told Stabroek Business that the association’s concern was with the creation of “an administratively stable environment” at Ogle without which, he said, “the operational side of the airport will be compromised.” According to Gouveia “with the economic direction of the country pointing to much greater demand for an efficient aviation sector in the period ahead there is pressure on both the operators and the government to fix the existing problems and to do so quickly. There will continue to be administrative instability and operational underperformance if the situation continues as it is.”