The Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority Celebrates 25 Years

NAME OF FEATURE | THE GLEANER | SUNDAY, MAY 2, 2021 25 NAME OF FEATURE | THE GLEANER | SUNDAY, MAY 2, 2021 24 JAMAICA CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY 25TH ANNIV RSA Y JAMAICA CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY 25TH ANNIVERSARY F T required by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to harmonise and elevate the safety and efficiency of air transport in every state. • Fun Fact: The KingstonAirTraffic Control Tower and the two main International Air Traffic Control Towers routinely and safely manage air traffic across 125,000 nauti- cal square miles of airspace, an area that is more than 13 times larger than the size of Jamaica! This area, called a Flight InformationRegion (FIR), extends to the FIR boundaries of Havana to thenorth; Panama and Barranquilla (Colombia) to the south; Central America to thewest; Curacao to the east; and Haiti to the northeast. • Based on the last ICAOUniversal Safety Oversight Audit results, conducted in 2016, the results placed Jamaica in the position of attaining the highest effective imple- mentation ranking for ICAO Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) within the English-speaking Caribbean. • Jamaica also received the ICAO Council President’s Award for significant progress in improving our effective im- plementation (EI) of SARPs to exceed the global target of 80 per cent. • The JCAA is headquartered at 4 BEACON CONTINUED FROM 11 “ The upgraded Kingston Air Traffic Control Centre. A SIA radar. The Kingston Flight Information Region. • Fun Fact: The Kingston Air Traffic Control Tower and the two main International Air Traffic Control Towers routinely and safely manage air traffic across 125,000 nautical square miles of airspace, an area that is more than 13 times larger than the size of Jamaica! 13 12 PLEASE SEE BEACON , 23