The government awarded US$759 million to Lindsayca-CH4, a consortium that included a company with five employees and Venezuelan roots, without requiring Caribbean experience. It is now running a 14-day Caribbean-restricted tender to recover thirty bodies from the MV Barima. Guyana1News examines the procurement double standard that applies billions without scrutiny and scrutiny without mercy.

: The government opened bids for new airports in Lethem and Rose Hall this week. Meanwhile, the MV Barima just killed 73 people. Roads claimed 137 lives in 2025. The replacement ferry commissioned to retire the Barima in 2023 has still never sailed the route. And a domestic flight to Lethem costs between 40 and 250 percent of a minimum wage worker’s monthly income. Guyana1News asks the question nobody in government is answering: these airports are for whom?

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.

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.