Dear Editor,
What’s in a name? A lot apparently, if the name happens to be Correia and the majority of operators at Ogle Airport are to be believed.
The new coalition government demonstrated a penchant for name changing without consultation, from early on. Social Cohesion, Infrastruc-ture, Communities, Citizenship were some of the new tags given to ministries. Most Guyanese still don’t know where to go for what.
When the President decreed that the Conference Centre should be named after the late Arthur Chung, there was clearly not the slightest objection.
So emboldened, the suggestion was made publicly to rename Ogle International ‒ The Eugene Correia Airport.
Eugene who? everyone landing there will be asking. Only historians interested in the past will tell you he was a minister of the government in the 1960s, not mentioned again over the five decades we’ll soon be celebrating.
Why not Anthony Mekdeci, Robbie Roberts or Malcolm Chan-a-Sue ‒ aviation standouts?
Or why not leave it be as Ogle? After all most Guyanese still call the main airport Timehri.
Yours faithfully,
E Persico
