Weeping captain: 'we don't deserve this' says vessel was unfit to sail

What this source establishes

[ALLEGATION — assertion by an accused person, untested] Price, quoted verbatim: "The vessel had a lot of issues, the vessel anchor ain't wuking, the vessel radar, we don't have a radar, the vessel don't have a search and rescue transponder, the vessel don't have an EPIRB." This is the fullest published list of alleged equipment defects. [ALLEGATION — assertion by an accused person] On life rafts: "Those life rafts expired since 2022, and Maritime did an inspection and did not write off that vessel." This directly implicates MARAD's inspection regime and is the first published allegation of its kind from an.

Key claims

• [ALLEGATION — assertion by an accused person, untested] Price, quoted verbatim: "The vessel had a lot of issues, the vessel anchor ain't wuking, the vessel radar, we don't have a radar, the vessel don't have a search and rescue transponder, the vessel don't have an EPIRB." This is the fullest published list of alleged equipment defects.
• [ALLEGATION — assertion by an accused person] On life rafts: "Those life rafts expired since 2022, and Maritime did an inspection and did not write off that vessel." This directly implicates MARAD's inspection regime and is the first published allegation of its kind from an accused person.
• Price's cry entering court in handcuffs: "I ain't deserve this father God, I want you to answer my prayers here this morning father God, I ain't deserve this father God."
• Price on the vessel's age: "Everybody knows is an old vessel the government give me to wuk, 87 years old is that vessel."
• Kaieteur glosses EPIRB as "the Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon — a satellite distress device designed to alert search and rescue authorities during a marine emergency."
• [DATE ERROR IN SOURCE] The article states "On Monday, 40-year-old Price... appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates' Court" — every other source, including Kaieteur's own 28 July report, places the appearance on Tuesday 28 July.
• Renders the second accused as "Rondell Dwayne, 42, of Grove Public Road" — dropping the surname Roberts and giving 'Grove' rather than Kaieteur's own earlier 'Meadow Grove'.
• This article does NOT state a count of charges; it says only that "The three were jointly charged with murder."
• Restates figures: "73 people, including children, confirmed dead and at least 30 people missing at sea."

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