CARIBBEAN Airlines recently posted advertisements locally, seeking to recruit flight attendants from Guyana.
But if your application was considered for the post, then be prepared to have your anus examined (whether male or female) before you can get the job. As ridiculous and unbelievable as this may sound, the airline does not apprise applicants of this requirement in advance, and you only come to realize that your anus will be examined when you lay half naked on their doctor’s examination table.

According to several Trinidadian flight attendants who worked with the airline in the past, the humiliating policy was introduced a few years ago and has continued to be the case, resulting in most of them resigning as cabin crew members. A confidentiality clause would have however prevented new recruits from revealing this.

In earlier disapproval of the airline’s anal exam policy, Curtis John, President General of the General Aviation, Communication and Allied workers Union (ACAWU) in Trinidad, had explicitly condemned the airline’s practice.
“An anal exam goes beyond finding out if an individual is healthy to work,” he said at the time.

He had also stressed that he did not know of anywhere else in the world where one’s anus has to be examined before they obtained a flight attendant job. And what does examining one’s anus has to do with evaluating their ability to work with an airline anyway?

Several reputable ‘wiki’ websites such as ehow.com have also listed Caribbean Airline’s anal examination policy as existent, and as an integral part of that company’s employment policy.

Top brass at the Airline’s Trinidad head office refused to comment on the policy when contacted by the Guyana Chronicle, but have not denied that cabin crew members are required to undergo an anal examination.