Up to 11 am today, just over 100 Guyanese passengers were still stranded by Caribbean Airlines (CAL) at the John F Kennedy Airport, New York – some of them having been at JFK for more than two days -and they are now being told they may not get on a plane until midnight today.
The announcement at the airport around 10.30 am today sparked a wave of chanting and protests by the passengers but it appears to have had little impact on CAL which has made a series of promises which have not been met.
CAL is also not providing accommodation for the passengers as it claims that area hotels are all booked up, passengers told Stabroek News.
The Guyanese had been