Granger reminds that justice still awaited for Cubana bombing victims

From left: President David Granger; Cuba’s Ambassador to Guyana, Julio César González Marchante; Ambassador designate from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Pak Chung Yul; Honorary Consul for Barbados, Gerry Gouveia and brother of one of the victims, Rawle Thomas, Jeffery Thomas, at the wreath laying ceremony. (Ministry of the Presidency photo)

Thirty-nine years after a terrorist attack killed eleven Guyanese on board a Cubana Airways flight, President David Granger yesterday reminded that justice for the act was still outstanding.

“Guyana reminds the world that Justice for the Cubana Aviación Flight CU-455 is still outstanding”, Granger lamented at a memorial service held at the Cubana Air Disaster Monument at the University of Guyana.

On October 6, 1976 seventy-three persons, including 11 Guyanese students, were killed