Albert Eustace (Zick) Isaacs, Former Pilot with Guyana Airways
Albert (Zick) Eustace Isaacs died on Saturday, February 21, 2015 at age 73 in Ontario, Canada.
Albert was born in Guyana to the late Albert (Sr.) and Irma Isaacs, and was the brother of Yvette, Garth and the late Michael Isaacs.
Albert was a pilot at Guyana Airways, then immigrated to Canada in 1975.
The Story Of Bing Serrão And The Ramblers
I begin with a summary of The Ramblers from the time we were very young teenagers ‘fooling around’ with attempting to make some sort of music, until up to 1962 when several members of the band had left Guyana, some emigrating to the U.K., others to Canada. Eventually, only Bing, Maurice and Vincent Xavier survived the exodus from the political unrest in Guyana.
Five High Sschool students of Guyanese heritage develop Mobile App that rates encounters with Law Enforcemment
Decatur, GA, August 15, 2014 - 14 year old Parkview High School Freshman, Caleb Christian was concerned about the number of incidents of police abuse in the news. Still, he knew there were many good police officers in various communities, but had no way of figuring out which communities were highly rated and which were not. So, together with his two older sisters: P
Guyana Airways DHC-4 Caribou Registration 8R-GDO
DHC-4A: Construction # 291
Accepted from de Havilland by Guyana Airways: June 07, 1970
Registration: 8R-GDO
Purchased by St. Louis Airways: June 1981
Leased by Air Inuit: 1981
Registration: C-GVYW
Crashed 48 miles SW of Bridgetown, Barbados: June 14, 1981
Recent earthquakes in the Caribbean stirs discussion
In the past two weeks there have been numerous earthquakes near the Caribbean and Central America region with at least two of those quakes above 5.0 magnitude
D’Aguiar Imperial House (DIH) - A Landmark and a Legacy
A few hundred feet from the iconic Stabroek Market clock tower, at Water Street and Brickdam, Georgetown, Guyana, stands D’Aguiar Imperial House (DIH). Built in the late 1940s DIH sits prominently in the Stabroek Market square a central meeting point for people for all parts of Guyana.
E. R. Braithwaite, author of "To Sir, With Love"
Edward Ricardo Braithwaite (born June 27, 1912) is a Guyanese novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat, best known for his stories of social conditions and racial discrimination against black people. He was born in Georgetown, Guyana.
Olga Evelyn McKenzie (May 19, 1927 – November 04, 2013)
Olga Evelyn Moore was born on May 19 1927 in Ann’s Grove Village, East Coast Demerara, Guyana to Vincent &Winifred Moore (nee Sancho).
She married Claude McKenzie, a fellow Guyanese in England and the union bore three children.
Aubrey Cummings - Musician and Vocalist
Birth Aubrey Cummings was born in the year 1947 and grew up in the Alberttown / Queenstown neighbourhoods of Georgetown, Guyana Discovered talent His decision to develop a career in pop music was influenced by Michael Bacchus and the Heartbreakers. The magic of popular music and show business excited him, and he took up the guitar. He is a self-taught guitarist.
37th Anniversary of Terrorist Attack on Cubana Flight 455
On October 06, 1976 a terrorist bomb exploded on Cubana Airline flight 455 causing it to crash into the sea off the coast of St James Barbados 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.