The resident of Plum Park Sophia Georgetown, are concerned about their main access road when it rains. Just after 24hours or rain the main access road turned in to a pool. "Just look at the main road, when they come to make it they do something hurry up and done." one resident told Guyana Graphic reporter.

It was considered a red letter day in the history of air transport when the Ogle International Airport commissioned the expanded 4,200 feet long runway this afternoon, raising Guyana’s image in the aviation sector and allowing for LIAT Dash-8 300 and medium range jets such as the Cessna Citation series to be accommodated. In the presence of the group of private aircraft owners and officials of the funding agency, the European Union, President Donald Ramotar advocated for low airfares, alluding to the advantages derived from such offers.

History about to be made..first Jet about to land Ogle.

Prime Minister Freundel Stuart says his administration has not turned its back on REDjet, insisting that the airline would not be treated as “some cast-off child”. Speaking at a public meeting of his ruling Democratic Labour Party (DLP), Stuart said that some concerns still needed to be addressed about the carrier before the government could consider investing in its operations. Last month, a senior Barbados government minister said that efforts were being made to have REDjet resume operations within a two-month period.

The first Jet aircraft to touch down at the Ogle airport was a Hawker Sidley, HS-125-700.

One of three persons who were rescued from the Sussex Street Canal on Saturday evening after a taxi lost control and careened off a bridge subsequently succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital while receiving medical attention. Dead is Seventeen year old Elbert Thom of Lot 181, Grove Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, while his mother, Alma Thom who also received injuries was treated and sent away.

A taxi driver was early Thursday morning found bound and gagged outside a house in Enmore, East Coast Demerara. The name of the dead man as Ravindra Puran. He was 40 years old. Police sources said that his body bore marks of violence. Family members say he left his home at Diamond, East Bank Demerara around 9 PM to work. He never returned, prompting family members to report him missing to police.

Thousands of pensioners turn out at the 83 post offices around the country to receive their "old age pension". The sum of GUY $10,000 is the highest amount ever paid in the history of Guyana

Graphic Graphic today visited some of the post offices where the elderly made several complains about the service they received.

May Day is a special occasion for the Labour Movement and workers in Guyana. It is a time when they should be able to celebrate the consolidation of their rights, increased wages and benefits, improved working conditions, the protection of pension rights and the general progress of the labour movement.

Vice President of the Demerara Speedboat Association, Lancelot Moseley fears that the rotting and unstable structure of the Vreed-en-Hoop Stelling may collapse, resulting in fatalities Persons who use the Vreed-en-Hoop, West Bank Demerara (WBD) stelling say that they risk serious injury because of the deplorable state of the structure.