Watery wiles
The government’s move to establish a $496.3 million bottled-water plant is, to put it mildly, disgraceful.
Editorial
Preparing for the MV Barima CoI
More than three weeks after the horrific tragedy of July 18, it is clear that the obduracy of the government will not be penetrated.
Model villages campaign
As we have said before in these columns the important business of the country has to proceed even as it grapples with the unbearable grief being borne by dozens of families following the July 18 capsizing of the MV Barima and the loss of around 100 lives.
For our Indigenous People
All Guyanese know that the people commonly referred to as Indigenous Peoples, or Amerindians, were the first inhabitants of the land we now call Guyana.
Containing political fallout
The political strategists of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) and the Government of Guyana appear to have reached the same unavoidable conclusion: their handling of the MV Barima tragedy has cost them significant political ground while simultaneously alienating many of their own supporters.
Mr Jagdeo’s failure
On Tuesday Vice-President Jagdeo and several ministers journeyed to Linden for an outreach at Watooka House.
When condolences are not enough
As we continue to come to terms with the devastation that occurred on July 18 when the MV Barima capsized, this nation is still navigating profound grief.
Aborted Public Accounts Committee meeting
That a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament was aborted yesterday over the presence of Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill shows how deeply ingrained the fallout from the July 18 capsizing of the MV Barima with the loss of at least 73 persons has become.
Keeping the President’s farm in focus
It is appropriate that the fullest attention and resources are devoted to meeting the needs of the families of those who died when the MV Barima capsized on July 18, the traumatized survivors and their relatives and those who are still searching for loved ones who are believed to have perished but whose bodies have not been found.
Commission of Inquiry into MV Barima capsizing
On Thursday in great secrecy and haste, President Ali orchestrated the swearing in of the five members of the Commission of Inquiry into the catastrophic sinking of the MV Barima with approximately 100 deaths.
MV Barima and the referendum on executive leadership
The public calls for the resignation of Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill following the MV Barima tragedy were predictable.
The truth
The MV Barima should be raised from the sea floor. It is as simple as that. In the first place it contains the remains of an unknown number of those who died in the disaster, and in the second it constitutes the sole source of physical evidence for what went wrong. But
Ministerial accountability
In the aftermath of the MV Barima tragedy, public attention quickly shifted from the sea to the corridors of power.
Culpability for capsizing of MV Barima
Predictably, what appears to be a campaign for scapegoats in the horrific loss of life aboard the MV Barima on July 18 is well under way.
Credit is due
President Irfaan Ali has appointed a five-person commission to enquire into what caused the MV Barima tragedy, with attention understandably focused on what went wrong.
CoI into MV Barima tragedy
Offered an opportunity to signal a pathway to deeper healing in the country following the catastrophic loss of life in the sinking of the MV Barima on July 18, President Ali yesterday spurned prospects for such by invoking his right to name all of the members of the inquiry under the Commission of Inquiry Act.
Appearances and reality
The disaster of the MV Barima will live on in the Guyanese consciousness for a long time. But leaving aside the enormity of the human tragedy which occurred when the vessel capsized, the fact cannot be avoided that with its sinking the malfunctioning of the state was glaringly exposed. And
Search and rescue
The MV Barima tragedy has exposed a terrible reality in Guyana: the country does not possess a credible national search-and-rescue capability.
Decisive action on ferry tragedy
It is quite possible that the bereaved families of the victims of Saturday’s catastrophic capsizing of the MV Barima are comforted in some way by the three days of mourning announced by the government, the candlelight vigils it has organized across the country and the attendance of senior ministers at burials even if the relatives of some deceased are still missing.
Failed leadership
A nation mourns. And when national tragedies occur they test more than the resilience of a people.