Need for more assertiveness, control seen in some CJIA emergency responses -Benn

Ranks of the Guyana Fire Service extract ‘passengers’ from crash site to a safe area (GINA photo)

Public Works Minister Robeson Benn has identified some shortcomings in some aspects of the response during the simulated plane crash emergency exercise staged by the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) on Wednesday.

Over 300 personnel from the Guyana Fire Service (GFS), the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), the Guyana Police Force (GPF), the Red Cross Society, Customs and Immigration, Ministry of Health, and the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority, police force, participated in the mock emergency exercise,