Dear Editor,
What’s in a Name?
What’s in a name? What value would the renaming of the Ogle International Airport bring to anyone-owner, manager, passenger, pilot or politician? Certainly any new name would not enlighten the empty lamps for any of the foregoing to see potholes in the ‘international’ road which leads to the airport, moreso in the anticipated rainfall of May!
This insistence on superficiality, albeit against the wishes of the stakeholders, would appear to contradict the social cohesion institutionalised in the public governance structure, as well as the blandishments about consultation, when what would at least help to reduce accidents and add value to life (and limb) would be better engineered roadways which disaporeans could traverse in appreciation.
In any case has anybody enquired into the implications for recordkeeping across continents and airline administrations of the name change?
However, if they persist surely the most eligible candidate should be ‘Art’ Williams who pioneered air transportation in British Guiana, and after whose maintenance engineering partner, the current Harry Wendt training school at Ogle is named.
This undersigned was once a passenger in their amphibian aircraft to Apoteri up the Berbice River where there was a balata bleeding station, operated by the former Booker McConnell, the site where one of its employees, my grandfather, was buried.
Yours faithfully,
E.B. John
