OPINION: If asking for safe ferries is called noise … then make noise Gen Z
By Gwen McIntyre, a concerned Guyanese mother Following the capsizing on July 18 of the ill-fated state-owned ferry MV Barima ...
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OPINION: A vessel in the mud, a captain in chains: the law Guyana chose not to use
By: Dexter O. Fraser Mr Dexter Fraser Kevin Price wept in the dock. The forty-year-old captain of the MV Barima ...
MV Barima original passenger capacity was 600 – historical records
The 87-year-old ferry MV Barima that sank last month was built with a capacity to carry 600 passengers, but over ...
MV Barima’s murder charges trumped up to cover officials’ failures – chief mate’s friends
Family members, friends and residents of First Mate of the sunken ferry, MV Barima, Sunday night held a solidarity protest ...
MV Barima to be salvaged for Commission of Inquiry
The ferry MV Barima Amid growing protests by a wide cross-section of Guyanese, the government on Saturday said the 87-year-old ...
Protests against murder charge for MV Barima captain, others, Indigenous Amerindians among activists picketing president’s office
Protesters in solidarity with the Transport and Harbours Department staff protest on the Den Amstel Public Road. Family members and ...
PM says no effort to deliberately kill MV Barima occupants
The location of the MV Barima Prime Minister Mark Phillips on Tuesday said he did believe that anyone set out ...
OPINION: In open letter season: mine to AG Nandlall
By GHK Lall Guyana is engulfed in grief. Adding to that grief are the graphic images. A female conscientious objector ...
Call in int’l experts to investigate MV Barima tragedy – FGM leader
Leader of the Forward Guyana Movement (FGM) Amanza Walton-Desir on Wednesday said the government should call in overseas experts to ...
Heavy govt cargo was loaded onto MV Barima, “breakdown” in routine inspection
The MV Barima Prime Minister Mark Phillips on Tuesday admitted that the government had loaded several heavy items onto the ...
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