The Grenada Airports Authority (GAA) assures the general public that it continues to uphold all national security and health protocols, as the country’s preparedness for the impact of Covid-19 moves into high gear.
The GAA continues to routinely accept private aircraft, once they meet the newly established criteria in this period of heightened awareness of this disease.
In this regard, the GAA wishes to clearly state that the required protocols were followed in relation to a private flight with Chinese nationals aboard on Friday, 13 March 2020.
Confirming the arrival of this flight, the GAA states categorically that the flight did not originate in China, nor did the passengers onboard have any recent travel history to China or any of the other countries currently experiencing a prevalence of Covid-19 cases.
Further, the GAA states that in accordance with international Health regulations and guidelines, this virus has infiltrated borders globally regardless of race and as such, monitoring and controlling the spread of the virus is prudent at this time.
The GAA must get clearance from all its stakeholders before allowing aircraft to land and take-off from the Maurice Bishop International Airport. This clearance does not come from the Prime Minister as stated in recent social media posts. All airlines wishing to land at MBIA must first submit a flight plan and contact a ground handler who will then seek the necessary approvals from the GAA and the Ministries of Health and Civil Aviation. The travel history of the crew and passengers are considered before making a decision to accept that aircraft into our airspace. This aircraft, crew and passengers met all the requirements to land at MBIA. All the established protocols were carried out on Friday night in the facilitation of this flight.
The GAA and its parent Ministry remains committed in its fight to control the spread of this disease at all its aerodrome sites and continues to upgrade facilities, equipment, monitoring and surveillance methodologies in accordance with WHO and Ministry of Health guidance and collaboration.
GAA
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Same things happening in Jamaica & Trinidad brother & wife returned from carnival in trinidadian airport one of them cousin Came down with pneumonia.
Chinese who can afford it escaping to Caribbean’s tropical paradises soon all the donkey & sick stray dogs disappear in to the wildlife wet markets in your tropical countries.
As far as I’m concerned, you can trace someone’s personal contacts so far! Stop the overseas traffic until further notice. At this point prevention is the cure!
I am on a cruise ship in the United states we just came from a 7 day trip with 7 thousand guests and crew on board, not one case of Corona virus because of proper hand washing and sanitizing with bleach, and we are all safe, so stop the hating and biting, work together as one, United we will overcome come, Chinese are here working with me, proper hygiene is the key, stop bad mouthing my sweet land, I hate to read about it.
All of the comments by theses haters of the government are putting a smair of shame on my beautiful country, l am out telling people about my beautiful island and they’re so eager to see,shame on all you haters, leave my beautiful Grenada and go to Iraq or Syria and stop staining my sweet land, keep up the good work to the p m and the nnp build the a bright future for my kids, stay strong. God bless my nation and forgive the haters.
This here is why there is so much mistrust between the presiding government of Grenada and its citizens. This is bigger than a plane load of Chinese nationals been allowed into the country in the (alleged) hours of the morning.
Why did they have to come to Grenada, why not stay where they were? Are they nationals by birth, descent, marriage or by the weight of their purses and wallets? I would wager its the later.
You cannot go to China to do business as a black person (man/woman) and demand, insist on citizenship even before you set foot on that soil let alone after spending a couple hundred thousand $US or $EC dollars. So why the hell are we giving them or making them citizens so readily?
Look at what’s happening over the Caribbean, they (Chinese) are positioning themselves in every corner of the Caribbean and offering to build infrastructure at minimal or less than conventional cost with loans from them which we don’t have to pay back immediately but over long periods,. In return, they get huge tax consessions, as well as long tax breaks, free or granted Grenadian passport (which they then use to bring in more of their people and start to buy up all the best lands and or national open public spaces and want to say, ‘you can’t come here, this is Chinese property’). Some of the banks treat or give preferential treatment to them over our own citizens. Iam not saying that some of them don’t have their own capital but we must put our own business people / enturpurneurals first. At the present rate of unchecked and uncapped influx of Chinese nationals in Grenada and across the Caribbean we will soon have a second national language similar to that of South Africa, (alledgley). While cross border trading for economy and migration of nationals and exchange of cultures are welcomed for the multidevelopment and diversity of nations it should never be at the expense of the respective host nation. Grenada is an independent sovereign state, as are it neighbours surrounding, remember that. It is not or are they a ‘nation States of the PRC. Don’t drop your guard people…
Covid-19 IS NOW ENTERING GRENADA VIA PRIVATE JETS??? LORD ALREADY GOD.. HAVE MERCY ON OIR NATION. HEAVENLY FATHER YOU KNOW THAT WE CAN NOT BUILD A HOSPITAL AND CREMATORIUM IN 11 DAYS. HELP US HEAVENLY FATHER IN JESUS’s MIGHTY NANE.
APPALLING!!!!! THE CHINESE, ARE GIVEN A TICKET TO ENTER OUR GRENADA BY PRIVATE JET??? THIS MAKEA US LOOK VERY FOOLISH. THE GRENADA AIRPORT AUTHORITY SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THE DECISION. TO ACCEPT PRIVATE JETS.
Chinese nationals again…. And again!!! How Mant times are we going to continue to be duped – over and over again. Utter nonsense!!!
Did you all even read the article? It clearly states that they flight did not originate from China Nor did the passengers have recent travel history to any of the affect countries. One can be a national of a country and not reside in that country just like we have many Grenadian nationals residing in the UK, Canada, USA etc. It’s rather closed minded to use one’s ethnicity to discriminate against suspicions of covid 19 since we should all be aware that this disease affects all ethnicities, class, colour….you get my drift. Plus majority of Caribbean cases of covid19 were not from China.
Interesting … Chinese Nationals; again & again. Selling off our Grenada; piece by piece – while Politicians stuff pockets.
Nicholas Steele should be focused on the potential Health Crisis – instead of inviting chance of Coronavirus to our precious Homeland & hosting them !!!
If our screening methods were soooooo effective, how did the UK citizen enter without anyone noticing that he/she was ill, then they stayed on island for 7 days without anyone noticing, and then again went back to the airport and still not be noticed? Maybe you’ll too busy taking in private jets and lying that its not from China that you have failed to notice that it’s not just the Chinese…. The virus has spread to many parts of the world…. Or maybe the politicians really just don’t care.. Maybe they think their money will protect them from Corona.
the problem faced is trust?
Our public officials are so compromised that mistrust is the order of the day.
Ray, what is the trust issue here? The people don’t trust the GAA? Any other insinuations is asserting that the operations of the MBIA is managed from the Botanical Gardens… To me, your comment suggests a serious level of incompetence on the GAA to do their work. Let’s keep politics out of the atmosphere now, plenty time for this later…