The Ministry of Public Works and Communications is advising persons who have claims in relation to the purchase of tickets to and from Canada against Roraima Airways/Sunrise International Travels Inc to submit same to it.

According to an advertisement appearing in the print media yesterday, the claims must include, full name and address of claimant, dates when tickets purchased, copies of tickets/receipts and any other pertinent details.

Claims should be addressed to the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Public Works and Communications, Wight’s Lane, Kingston, Georgetown. The deadline for submission of claims is March 31st.

Sunrise in collaboration with Roraima ran a short-lived service to and from Toronto, Canada in December of last year.

The service ended abruptly after reports that there were issues with Ram Tiwari’s licence. Tiwari is the owner of Sunrise International and reports had said that Sunrise had violated the terms of the Travel Industry Act and following a meeting had voluntarily terminated its registration.

A source with the company had told Stabroek Business that a direct flight between Georgetown and Toronto was very much sought after and the operators were optimistic that the service would increase both business and leisure travel between Guyana and Canada. The most recent direct service — Zoom — had closed its operations in 2008.

Stabroek Business had been told that Roraima had posted the US$200,000 bond required by the government on all international flights to Guyana.