Guyana initially welcomed the Barbados Government’s commitment to “a vigorous investigation” of the “act of terrorism” in the Cubana Airliner bombing and to ensuring “that this evil would be wiped off the face of the earth,” but days later slammed the island’s defiant decision to refuse jurisdiction for the crime.
Prime Minister Forbes Burnham fumed over the October 16, 1976 confirmation “that the Barbados Government and Court had no jurisdiction in this matter’ and incredulously disputed the “doubt in their minds as to whether the plane came down in the territorial waters of Barbados” or in international territory.