Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo has asked the United States National Transportation Safety Board to assist in investigating why a Caribbean Airlines flight overshot a rainy runway, and crash-landed after departing from JFK airport on Friday evening. No one was killed in the crash, and according to the Post the worst injuries sustained were "a broken leg, bumps, cuts and bruises." more ›

A Guyana-bound plane that departed from JFK airport yesterday carrying 140 people crashed and broke into two pieces around 1 a.m. this morning, seriously injuring four, but miraculously caused no deaths. A woman on the plane said there was a loud noise as the plane landed, and everyone began screaming. "It was terror," she told a Guyanese news outfit, "I was praying to Jesus." more ›

Abdul Kadir, one of the two men who were convicted on charges of trying to blow up fuel lines at JFK airport, was sentenced to life in prison today. Kadir, a former member of Guyana's parliament, was one of four people who faced multiple charges after a 2007 plot to explode fuel tanks and the fuel pipeline under the airport failed. Last summer, he defended himself against the terrorism charges, and claimed that he was only pretending to go along with the alleged plot because he hoped the others plotters would introduce him to rich Muslims whom he could hit up for money to build a mosque back home. more ›

A Chase bank in South Richmond Hill Queens is a serving as a case study of Guyanese/Trinidadian racial tensions. We never realized there was any animosity between the two countries, but apparently there's at least one person from Guyana who thinks people from Trinidad are just a bunch of lazy, thin-skinned no-goodniks. That would be the manager of the Chase branch on Liberty Avenue, who allegedly fired her Trinidadian underling after she complained to HR about the racist abuse. Now the ex-teller is suing Chase—and if nothing else her litigiousness shows how she's fully assimilated into the American way of life. more ›

Early this morning a security guard was stabbed to death in Brooklyn as he was returning home from a night out. Anthony Blair was walking on Atlantic Avenue (recently named the outer-boroughs’s deadliest street) near Hunterfly Place when he was knifed in the neck near a Getty gas station. Cops haven’t yet said if there’s a motive in the killing of the 44-year-old from Guyana, according to the Daily News. As of this afternoon police haven’t made any arrests, but gas station clerks are looking through security footage to find a suspect. more ›

A Brooklyn woman who had traveled down to her home country of Guyana to spread the ashes of her late brother ended up in the throes of an incredible near-death experience along the Corentyne River. For 36-hours, Sherry Haynes clenched onto a 5-gallon bucket after the capsizing of a water taxi that would take the lives of a friend, her sister and in all likelihood her nephew. Besides the bucket, the Crown Heights woman says that a combination of prayer and hopes of seeing her 19 year-old daughter again kept her alive. “I never in my wildest dreams anticipated that this was what I was coming for, for all these funerals," Haynes said. She plans on bringing the bucket back to Brooklyn with her. more ›

The tabloids have caught wind of a bird smuggling operation uncovered by customs officials at JFK airport: For years now people have been sneaking Guyanese finches called Towa Towas into New York. The birds are used by Brooklyn’s Guyanese community for singing competitions; people place bets on two birds, and a judge decides which one has the lovlier song. (Here’s YouTube video of a Towa Towa singing.) more ›