All citizens should now demand that the salvage of the MV Barima ferry get underway

Dear Editor, On 27 July, I called on the government (President Ali, Prime Minister Phillips, MPW Edghill) to immediately requisition the Normand Installer, a heavy-lift vessel at Chaguaramas, Trinidad on 25 July, and heading for installation of mooring anchors and SURF for the FPSO ‘One Guyana’, on contract to SBM Offshore. I called on the government to…

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Why were the Bell rescue helicopters not launched immediately from Ogle?

Dear Editor, Omni Helicopters Guyana Inc. is a partnership with Roraima Airways owned by the Gouveia family, https://www.facebook.com/OHGInc/.  Omni mainly services the offshore deep-water oilfield operations of Exxon Mobil Guyana Ltd. (EMGL) and has a fleet of six aircraft at Ogle, 20 minutes flying time from Iron Punt where the MV Barima ferry was sinking…

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Government response to high levels of mercury in Amerindian communities?

Dear Editor, In follow-up to the letter in KN by Immaculata Casimero about high levels of mercury in women at Parabara in South Rupununi ‘our oil wealth should not come at the cost of Indigenous women’s health’, 6th July, 2026; the medical report on Chinese Landing from August 2023 should be remembered.  During the government’s ‘fact-finding’ mission to…

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