Why not lift the sunken MV Barima immediately?
Dear Editor, The head of the French Navy diving team at the wreck of the MV Barima stated that the wreck site was swept by strong current and being covered in silt. So, it was simply too dangerous to try to enter the wreck when the divers could hardly see an arm’s length in front…
Let us not have to await a change of government for the MV Barima to be raised
In March 2025, the remains of two Indigenous women – Morgan Harris and Marcedes Myran – who were murdered in 2022 by Jeremy Skibicki, a serial killer, were found after a search of a landfill in the Canadian province of Manitoba. Their murders had gone undetected for months until a man looking for scrap metal…
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…
Hire this vessel to lift MV Barima immediately
Dear Editor, The head of the French Navy diving team at the wreck of the MV Barima stated that the wreck site was swept by strong current and being covered in silt. So it was simply too dangerous to try to enter the wreck when the divers could hardly see an arm’s length in front…
‘One Guyana’ put to the test as Parliament yet to meet on MV Barima tragedy
Dear Editor, Your editorial in Kaieteur News of 21 July noted inter alia: ‘This country and its citizens are in urgent need of a few miracles. To vanquish the darkness that hangs over Guyana and devastates it. … It would be an assault on the grief of those who try to cope with their loss for the…
Timeline of the rescue effort for the MV Barima ferry sinking?
Dear Editor, Through your newspaper, I ask some questions that many Guyanese and others are asking. I will number my questions, for ease of reference. Could the Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Centre (MSRC) publish the timeline for the rescue effort for the sinking MV Barima ferry? This MSRC Centre is coordinated through MARAD and the…
‘One Guyana’ put to the test as Parliament yet to meet on MV Barima tragedy
Dear Editor, Your editorial in Kaieteur News of 21 July noted inter alia: ‘This country and its citizens are in urgent need of a few miracles. To vanquish the darkness that hangs over Guyana and devastates it. … It would be an assault on the grief of those who try to cope with their loss for the…
The Resource Curse Begins on a Farm (Part 2)
The Road to First Oil: Every Man, Woman and Child Must become Oil-minded Column 194 – The Resource Curse Begins on a Farm (Part 2) In Column 193, I argued that the controversy surrounding President Irfaan Ali’s farm at Long Creek is not fundamentally about agriculture. It is about governance in an oil-producing state. It…
Questions about the rescue efforts for MV Barima
Dear Editor, Through your newspaper, I ask some questions that many Guyanese and others are asking. I will number my questions, for ease of reference. Guyana acceded to the International Convention on the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) on 10 December 1997, and SOLAS became effective in Guyana on 10 March 1998. So presumably…