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 Aircraft
on survey mission in Mazaruni area (Region 7) is missing -
November 09, 2008
A search-and-rescue
operation was underway Sunday November 02, 2008 after a plane hired by a Canadian
mining company disappeared in the Amazon jungle of Guyana.
The aircraft, with three people aboard, was doing uranium survey
work for Prometheus Resources Guyana Inc., a subsidiary of U308
Corp. of Toronto
It was flying over rugged
terrain in western Guyana near Venezuela on Saturday when it
went missing.
Two helicopters from a British
parachute regiment that were training in the area joined the
search-and-rescue operation.
The aircraft, a Beech King Air, last made contact
with the Control Tower at the Cheddi Jagan International
Airport, Timehri at 3:06pm on Saturday November 01, 2008 to
report that they were commencing normal operations over the
survey area. On board were pilot, Captain James Wesley Barker,
28, and First Officer Chris Paris, 23, both US citizens and
Canadian Patrick Murphy, a Geophysics technician. The aircraft was thought to be operating near the Imbaimadai area.
 Satellite
view
of Imbaimadai area
Airport Code: IMB
Longitude: 60° 17' 0" W
Latitude: 5° 43' 0" N
GMT Offset: + 3 Hrs
Runway Elevation: 1650 ft |
 Inter-American
Development Bank (IDB) report on Guyana -
Guyana's country remittances for
2006 is over a staggering 50% of Guyana's GDP - March 21, 2008
A recent report (2006) from the IDB indicates that Guyana is third from the bottom of twenty-six
countries with a GDP per Capita of $1146.77. The only countries
with figures worse than Guyana are Bolivia ($1124.67) Nicaragua
(908.17) Haiti ($527.58).
read more....
The four countries at the
top are Bahamas ($18917.16), Trinidad & Tobago ($15355.3),
Barbados ($12154.23), and Chile ($8864.34)
Guyana's Country remittances have grown from just under $100M US
in 2001 to a staggering $466M US in 2007.
read more
from IDB report - large file...
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Terrorist attack on Guyanese 30 years on
It has been 30 years since the
terrorist attack on the Cubana Airline flight 455 on October 06,
1976 killing all 73 of the passengers and crew
Of the passengers there were 57
Cuban, 11 Guyanese and 5 North Koreans. The Cuban national youth
fencing team were among the dead, as were a number of young
Guyanese academic scholarship winners who were traveling to Cuba
to pursue studies in medicine
Cuban, Venezuelan and Trinidadian law enforcement authorities
identified the perpetrators as Herman Ricardo Lozano and Freddy
Lugo, and their handlers and controllers, Luis Posada Carriles
and Orlando Bosch of the counter-revolutionary Cuban mafia
organization, "CORU"
Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles remain free men today in
the United States of America
Orlando
Bosch was released (some reports says pardoned of all American Charges) by George H. W.
Bush on July 18, 1990
Luis
Posada Carriles has confessed to several anti-Cuba crimes in
public interviews and is currently seeking US Citizenship under
a law applying to non-citizens who served honorably in the US
military .
The names of the Guyanese murdered in this terrorist attack
were:
Eric Norton - age 18 - student
Ann Nelson - age 18 - student
Seshnarine Kumar - age 18 - student
Jacqueline Williams - age 19 - student
Rawle Thomas - age 18 - student
Raymond Persaud - age 19 - student
Margaret Bradshaw - The wife of a Guyanese
Diplomat
Gordon Sobha - Economist
Sabrina Harripaul - age 9 - related to Violet and Rita
Thomas
Violet Thomas - related to Sabrina Harripaul and
Rita Thomas
Rita Thomas - related to Sabrina Harripaul and
Violet Thomas
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