The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) turned the sod yesterday on the land where it will construct its $1.2B headquarters in Providence, East Bank Demerara.
According to Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson, this event has been in the pipeline for several years now.
“We are all enthusiastic for the vast shift our Aviation sector will encounter in the not too far future is an accomplishment in itself,” he said.
Minister Patterson also noted that the GCAA has taken a bold step since the construction of the building comes at a time when Guyana’s aviation sector is expected to catapult into dimensions the country has never seen before.
“There is no better way to prepare for such dynamics than to construct a state of the art building; that will be built to specifications with technologically-advanced features.”
The Ministry of Public Infrastructure congratulates GCAA on this major accomplishment thus far.
Attending the ceremony also, were Junior Public Infrastructure Minister Jaipaul Sharma; Chairman of GCAA Board of Directors, Lt. Col (Ret’d) Lawrence London; and GCAA Director-General Egbert Field.
In March of 2002, the Government of Guyana established the GCAA. This was made possible with the passage of the Civil Aviation Act (2000) in Parliament of the same year. Formerly known as the Civil Aviation Department within the former Ministry of Public Works and Communications, now the Ministry of Public Infrastructure, the GCAA is responsible for managing and regulating the aviation sector in Guyana, ensuring compliance with international standards.
The Authority regulates and manages the aviation sector in accordance with the Civil Aviation Act (2000), and the Civil Aviation (Air Navigation) Regulations 2001, Air Transport (Licensing of Air Transport Services) Regulations 2001, The Civil Aviation (Security) Regulation 2004 and Civil Aviation (Air Traffic Services and Rules of the Air) Regulations 2006 made under the act.
