Stakeholders in the aviation industry, Transport and Hydraulics Minister Anthony Xavier and Home Affairs Minister Ronald Gajraj yesterday began discussions on improving domestic aviation security.

The meeting, which lasted just over two hours at the office of the Minister of Public Works and Transport, came in the wake of the hijacking of a 13-seater Trans Guyana aircraft last Wednesday.

Xavier told Stabroek News yesterday that the parties involved in the meeting, which was to review the state of aviation security and to look at recommendations for heightened security, would issue a joint statement.

Among those present at the meeting were Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Transport and Hydraulics; Kenneth Jordan; Air Transportation Reform Programme (ARTP) consultant, Patrica Morgan; ARTP Coordinator, Doodnauth Sharma; Civil Aviation Director, Jeffrey Pierre; former CAD director and shareholder Ogle Aerodrome Development Group (OADG), Aubrey Alexander; Planner of the OADG, Sugrim Mohan; President of the Aircraft Owners Association, Mike Correia, Operations Director of Trans Guyana Roy Jainandan and two senior police officers.

To date there has been no new development on the search for the four men who hijacked the plane bound for Georgetown from Lethem.