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The Caribbean Airlines crash exposed incompetence and failure

Aug 02, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
A taxi got on the scene of the crash before any emergency personnel, according to media reports. Yes, a taxi got to the scene of the crash before any emergency personnel.
The landing guidance systems and lighting is poor at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport. No ambulance, no emergency response vehicle, no fire service, no emergency lighting equipment, nothing. A taxi got there first.
But this gets worse. The taxi driver reportedly demanded US$20 to take a passenger away from the crash site. This is a sure sign of the cesspool this country has become.
This is how we know we are living in the PPP’s Guyana. The other problem is that there is a ravine with a big drop just beyond our landing strip. Between that ravine and the landing strip is a rundown fence.
Runaway excursions where pilots lose control of planes after landing are the most common problem involved in airline accidents. Yet this government never saw the need to offer more protection for planes overshooting the runway.
We are lucky. Very lucky. Guyana is making the news for pure luck, atrocious emergency preparedness and response and the blind greed of a taxi driver seeking to profit from someone’s misery. Every day in the past 19 years this mentality of grave selfishness and blind avarice was encouraged and this rank incompetence took place with uncommon ease. Before that, we had 28 years of this sickness.
This is life in this cost of living nightmare that is Guyana today. Believe it or not, this is the same government some people want to vote for all over again in 2011; a government that does not have an ambulance or an emergency response vehicle at the airport ready to respond first to the scene of an accident.
Is this the airport we want those tourists we desperately need to visit our country to come to? People have to wake up. Or this nightmare will get worse.

M. Maxwell

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