A technical assistance mission to Guyana in January this year by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) designed to determine the country’s state of readiness in aviation safety oversight had determined that the country’s state of readiness was the lowest in the region.
According to the ICAO the country’s Accident and Incident Investigation (AIG) branch “does not have enough human resources to carry out its functions and responsibilities. In this regard it recommends “an arrangement with a regional accident and incident investigation” as “the solution to the lack of investigators.”
The pointed ICAO conclusion on the country’s insufficient human resources to cover the key area of accident and incident investigation fuels what has been an ongoing discourse in recent years arising out of the
