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Absence of Cubana monument regrettable

Jun 19, 2010 News

The government this week expressed regret at not yet setting up a monument to honour those who were killed in the Cubana air disaster, 34 years ago.
The victims included Guyanese medical students and the young wife of a Guyanese diplomat.
Cubana flight 455 from Barbados to Jamaica was brought down by a terrorist attack on October 6, 1976. All 73 people on board the Douglas DC-8 aircraft were killed in what was then the most deadly terrorist airline attack in the Western hemisphere.
“It is really regrettable that we have not been able to attach the correct significance, the appropriate significance, that the administration felt a monument would demonstrate,” Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon stated.
Of those who died, 57 were Cubans, 11 were Guyanese, while five were North Koreans.
The government has expressed intentions to set up a monument but Luncheon admitted that “the intention is not as good as the act…not to have the monument yet is regrettable.
Luncheon said that advertisements have been placed inviting designs for the monument and the Minister who has responsibility for setting up the monument has been urged by the Cabinet to get the job done.
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) released documents in 2005 which indicate that the agency “had concrete advance intelligence, as early as June 1976, on plans by Cuban exile terrorist groups to bomb a Cubana airliner.”
The Guyanese who perished were Ann Nelson, Rawle Thomas, Raymond Persaud, Jacqueline Williams, Harold Norton, Gordon Sobha, Sabrina Harrypaul, Rita Thomas, Seshnarine Kumar, Margaret Bradshaw and Violet Thomas.

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