The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority’s (GCAA) wide-ranging powers could be detrimental to the development of the sector, according to a recent Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)-sponsored study.
“The current degree of concentration of functions in the GCAA has potential implications that could prevent the healthy development of the civil aviation sector in the country,” the report done for the Union of South American States (UNASUR), says. The objective of the study was to investigate the main causes of the constraints to regional air connectivity between countries of the Guyana Shield and with the other UNASUR member states. It was submitted in November.
According to the report, it is generally agreed that an efficient institutional framework must guarantee the complete independence between its four main functions: policy making, technical regulation, operations, and accidents/incidents investigation. It noted that
