The government is circulating a declaration asking relatives to agree the MV Barima remain undisturbed on the seabed as a memorial. Survivors are being consulted. But the families of the thirty people still inside that vessel, still unrecovered, still unnamed on any official list, were not given a vote. Guyana1News says they should have been asked first. And their answer should have been heard first.

he MV Barima was built in 1939 for a British colony that moved bags of rice and cloth up the coast. Eighty-seven years later, Guyana was still asking her to do that job — except now the load included 268 tonnes of modern cargo, vehicles, and 179 human lives crossing open coastal water at night. The government says the vessel was within its limits. Our technical load line analysis tells a different story. When you add the weight of passengers, crew, fuel, and vehicles to the cargo manifest figure, the evidence suggests the Barima was sailing with her load line as much as 10 to 12 centimetres below the waterline on her final voyage. This is what the numbers say.

Sixty-seven survivors were pulled from the Atlantic, but only 35 appeared on the MV Barima's manifest. This op-ed examines the fraud, the corruption it points to, why an 87-year-old ferry was still in service, and what the vessel's Bill of Quantities should have told us before it ever left port.

FIFA's Ethics Committee has handed a five-year ban to former Guyana Football Federation General Secretary Ian Alves after finding he sexually harassed female staff. The ruling also carries a fine of approximately US$22,000 and bars Alves from all football activities globally.