2D Int'l Airport.A second Guyana airport has won international status in a move government hopes will boost tourism and stimulate the economy, reports AP (Sept. 15, 2009). Planes from nearby countries can start using Ogle Intl Airport by 2011, said President Bharrat Jagdeo Bharrat Jagdeo (born 23 January 1964) is the socialist President of Guyana (since 11 August 1999). He had previously been a member of Janet Jagan's cabinet, and became president after Jagan resigned for health reasons. He is the youngest head of state of the Caricom countries. . Crews will extend the runway to 4,000 feet with help of a US$2 million European Union European Union (EU), name given since the ratification (Nov., 1993) of the Treaty of European Union, or Maastricht Treaty, to the European Community loan. The Intl Civil Aviation Organization and the civil aviation agencies of Guyana and the U.K. awarded the international certification to the airport, which was once an airfield for the state-owned sugar company's crop dusters crop duster Usually, an aircraft used for dusting or spraying large acreages with pesticides, though other types of dusters are also employed. Aerial spraying and dusting permit prompt coverage of large areas at the moment when application of pesticide is most effective and . Guyana's main airport, Cheddi Jagan Cheddi Jagan, also known as Cheddi Berret Jagan (March 22, 1918 – March 6, 1997), was the chief minister (1957-1964) and president (1992-1997) of Guyana. The son of ethnic Indian sugar plantation workers, Jagan managed to attend Queen's College in Georgetown. Intl, has struggled to improve safety conditions. Guyana recently invested US$3.4 million in navigation and weather-prediction systems to replace equipment that was more than 25 years old. |
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