However, external services continued to be supplied almost exclusively by foreign airlines until Guyana Airways Corporation commenced regional air services in 1979.

In the 1980s Guyana Airways Corporation's domestic operations started to deteriorate for a number of reasons, not least among them the unrealistically low fares it was required to charge and the lack of access to foreign exchange for imported aircraft parts and other requirements.

In the meantime, Guyana Airways Corporation's domestic service continued to deteriorate and, by 1993, possessed only one Twin Otter DHC-6 to service the entire country.

In 2006, World Airways and North American Airlines became subsidiaries of World Air Holdings, Inc. North American had both charter and scheduled operations to Georgetown, Guyana in South America ; Accra, Ghana ; and Lagos, Nigeria in west Africa.

Scheduled service is provided by Trans Guyana Airways via a single engine Cessna Caravan.

Trans Guyana Airways operates out of Ogle International Airport in Georgetown, Guyana.

Presently, Trans Guyana Airways Ltd. remains at the forefront of private sector aviation development in Guyana.

Trans Guyana Airways Ltd. remains optimistic about the future of aviation both in Guyana and in the region, as they chart their course into the 21st century.

The Trans Guyana Airways fleet consists of the following aircraft ( at October 2012 ):

* Trans Guyana Airways

The airline was established to replace the defunct Guyana Airways in 2001 and started operations on 13 December 2001 with a Boeing 767-300ER leased from LOT Polish Airlines non-stop from New York to Georgetown.

BWIA West Indies Airways has been assisting stranded passengers and the government of Guyana has confirmed it wants another national airline as soon as possible ( ref: Airliner World, November 2005 ).

* Guyana Sugar Corporation ( Headquarters of the country's largest corporation )

ARIN formerly covered Argentina, Aruba, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Dutch West Indies, Ecuador, El Salvador, Falkland Islands ( UK ), French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela until LACNIC was formed.

Indeed the Republic of Independent Guyana, in French La République de la Guyane indépendante and commonly referred to by the name of the capital " Counani ", was created in the area which was disputed by France ( as part of French Guyana ) and Brazil in the late nineteenth century.

From mid 1998 toll revenue has been credited to the account of the DHB and not to the Government of Guyana, as it was until then.

Although air transport in Guyana had its beginnings in the 1920s when the first " bush " services were introduced, Government's earnest participation can be dated from 1947 when a Director of Civil Aviation was appointed to regulate the industry.

However, the dispute with Suriname was arbitrated by the United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea and a ruling in favor of Guyana was announced in September, 2007.

With the move towards independence in the region Guyana was seen as the breadbasket of the wider Caribbean which lead to yet more waves of Barbadians seeking to move to Guyana for better opportunities.

Venezuela claimed more than half of the territory of the British colony of Guyana at the time of the Latin American wars of independence, a dispute that was settled by arbitration in 1899.

A border commission was set up in 1966 with representatives from Guyana, Venezuela and Great Britain, but failed to reach agreement.

Lastly in the 1990s, a plan was devised by the leaders of Guyana, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago to form a political association between those three governments.

Jonestown, the Guyana location of the Jim Jones cult and Peoples Temple mass suicide, was thought to be a test site for MKUltra medical and mind control experiments after the official end of the program.

In 1763, the African Cuffy led a revolt in Guyana which was bloodily suppressed by the Dutch.

In 1796, one of the Dutch colonies in Guyana, the Guyana Essequibo, was taken by the British, who had previously begun a massive introduction of slaves.

Whereas the first Dutch fort in Asia was built in 1600 ( in present-day Indonesia ), the first forts and settlements on the Essequibo river in Guyana and on the Amazon date from the 1590s.

Fiji's loss of skilled workers was the world's fourth highest, behind Guyana, Jamaica, Haiti, and Trinidad and Tobago.

* Dr. Walter Rodney, world-renowned historian of Africa, was born in Georgetown, Guyana.

One of the legacies of the indigenous peoples was the word Guiana, often used to describe the region encompassing modern Guyana as well as Suriname ( former Dutch Guiana ) and French Guiana.

Although Guyana was claimed by the Spanish, who sent periodic patrols through the region, the Dutch gained control over the region early in the 17th century.

In 1838, the first group of East Indians arrived in Guyana as indentured servants to fill the huge employment gap created on the plantations after slavery was abolished four years previously.

Black river ) from the north ; it is enriched by many streams from the sierras which separate Venezuela and Guyana from Brazil.

He made his comeback a memorable one with a match winning hundred over Guyana, followed by a dismissive undefeated half-century in the second innings, scored at over two runs per ball.

* Guyana: Chicken Curry, Goat Curry, Duck Curry, Shrimp Curry, Beef Curry ( eaten by Muslims and Christians ), Aloo Curry ( Potato ), Fish ( different varieties ) Curry, etc.

It is now possible to travel overland to Suriname by taking the ferry on the Guyana side at Moleson Creek and crossing the Corentyne River over to Suriname at South Drain.

Subsequently, restrictions on the repatriation of profits in foreign exchange and other circumstances contributed to the withdrawal of services to Guyana by foreign airlines, with the exception of BWIA.

According to Guyana's National Development Strategy, it is anticipated that by the year 2010 an inter-connected road system would have been established in Guyana.

* 50 Years of Flying in Guyana by H. S.

During a state visit by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to Georgetown in 2 March 2007, the governments of Guyana and Brazil signed several cooperation agreements and announced plans to boost trade between the two countries.

In 1962 Venezuela declared that it would no longer abide by the arbitration decision, which ceded mineral-rich territory in the Orinoco basin to Guyana.

Of the value of £ 100 each, one relates to the safe arrival of Hayman's ship in Guyana and the other is in regard to " one hundred pounds assured by the said Doctor Arthur Ducke on my life ".

Negotiations with the Government of Guyana brokered by the Jamaican Prime Minister in 2000 did not produce an agreement but the countries agreed to restart talks after Guyanese national elections in 2001.

It has its sources in the Guyana highlands, but its long course is frequently interrupted by violent currents, rocky barriers, and rapids.

Shaped roughly like an inverted triangle, the country has a 2, 800-kilometer coastline and is bounded on the north by the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, on the east by Guyana, on the south by Brazil, and on the west by Colombia.