Comments on: Turbulence on horizon as air traffic controllers dissatisfied

By: leonides

leonides — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:28:46 +0000

all who want to come and work come i think they are recruiting rite now for an asistant air traffic controlers course US$300 a month and hopefully in 10 years time ur going to reach the highest position as an air trffice controler(being very ambitious here) ur going to earn US$250 weekly. good luck
Dont worry there are always vacancies at sycj.
and who want to fire the air trffic controllers they sould hepl recuriting
one more thing its a semi privte organization which pays it self and they have enough revenue to pay the increase in salaries .The government does not have to find the money the earn it.

By: candy

candy — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:46:36 +0000

I thinkeveryone here knows that gt is “BLOWS”, no wander its corrupted and lots of brain drain going on.The attitude of the government is always like this. You cannot get a decent salary back home, but yet still the government is not willing to hold the young people by paying them fairly. think about this will decrease bribes,theft etc.

BUT HONEST I CAN’T WORK BACK HOME WITH THE SKILL I HAVE, I’M PRETTY SURE THE GOVERNMENT WILL UNDER PAY ME.

By: john brown

john brown — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:11:57 +0000

Pilot turning control of your air space over to private control will invite all kinds of problems. The drugs will fly in more openly and nobody will know but the private air traffic controllers. When you make suggestions they should be well thought out. One other thing people dont talk about, is that when Regan did what he did, that on a daily basis there were near misses over the skies.

By: caesar agustus

caesar agustus — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:56:22 +0000

I have never heard of so much junk . How many planes come to Guyana? Fire these people like Ronald Regan did in the eighties, when US air traffic controllers went on strike.

By: M. Xiu Quan-Balgobind-Hackett

M. Xiu Quan-Balgobind-Hackett — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:32:38 +0000

Alyuh pay de peeple dem dey money. Who ayuh want put fuh guide airyplane fuh land? One lil school boy or school gal who nah know de difference between east and west?

By: BravoMike

BravoMike — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:08 +0000

Up to now? The consequences of this procrastination will further cripple the economy.

By: amen-ra

amen-ra — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:56:55 +0000

so pilot when the fire all of them will you be willing to fill the vacant positions that will be left open.

By: PILOT 230

PILOT 230 — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:51:50 +0000

Do what the Canadians and other Countries around the globe did.Turn the operations over to a private company.Strike ? I would fire every one of them.Sometimes you have to take a strong stand.

By: amen-ra

amen-ra — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:42:34 +0000

So when they get fired, will you be willing to apply for that job, mr. swat, and if you answer no you need to hold your tongue.

By: amen-ra

amen-ra — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:39:55 +0000

well said rambler. He wouldn’t want to even come to work in guyana, just hot air he’s spewing.

By: tiger

tiger — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:35:30 +0000

THIS ADMINISTRATION has a history of not paying the workers of guyana,even after strike action is being taken, this issue has been going on for a prolonged period and is a shame that the govt cannot see it fit to pay these people who has a right to strike, they simply dont like to pay its workers, just themselves.

By: freespeech

freespeech — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:23:32 +0000

not the money, is to prevent a strike, of course they will have to be paid.

By: SWAT

SWAT — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:01:05 +0000

Any strike action should be follow up with a firing.

By: Amarie

Amarie — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:37:29 +0000

Why is the government playing with the ATCs livelihood and the publics’ lives. If the people are owed backpay, PAY THEM.

This is one of the reasons why the government jobs in GY attract people who don’t give a damn about what they are supposed to be doing. The people who are qualified constantly get the shaft!

Same thing with government contracts. They attract people who have no business at the bidding table because the real professionals will not play lowball with the Government.

By: Rambler

Rambler — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:56:12 +0000

Well freespeech. That sounds like a really good plan. Who will you put to work there? Got some GDF or GPF? The Genisis of this matter dates back to 2002 and persons have been extreemely patient and understanding so far. Would you like to be employed in a particular opst which attracts a salary of say $300.00US whether it is weekly or monthly, be informed that you have received a promotion to a higher grade and get a reduced salary? Or would you like to get $320.00 and be told that the scale to which you have been promoted stops at $320.00 and that you are already at the maximum of the scale so no increase? Or how about after all this, being written to to say that the GCAA is now in aposition to pay you your correct salary, retroactive and to see that other persons who are on a lower scale, earning less, who have worked with the Authority for a shorter period than you receive a LARGER payout than you because he/she is of a particular ethnicity or is “friendly” with the decision makers? If you answer yes to any of the above, I’ll pay your fare and arrange for you to work after the Government employs the Regan formula. Since 2007 the Controllers have tried to resolve this matter amicably.

By: freespeech

freespeech — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:36:00 +0000

employ REGAN formula, this will dispose of the union and solve the crisis, it’s an area that is vital for commuters and no game playing there.