Protest outside OP ups call for Edghill to quit, raising of MV Barima

What this source establishes

Crowd size given as "Over a hundred demonstrators" outside the Office of the President on 29 July — larger than Kaieteur's "roughly 100." Jean La Rose on the wreck: "It carries a lot of information. It carries a lot of evidence. It carries souls of the people. It must be raised so our people can have closure." Placards recorded: "Indigenous Voices Matter", "Stop treating our first people as an afterthought", "Edghill must Gooo!", "We deserve safe passage home", "Safe passage is a right not a privilege."

Key claims

• Crowd size given as "Over a hundred demonstrators" outside the Office of the President on 29 July — larger than Kaieteur's "roughly 100."
• Jean La Rose on the wreck: "It carries a lot of information. It carries a lot of evidence. It carries souls of the people. It must be raised so our people can have closure."
• Placards recorded: "Indigenous Voices Matter", "Stop treating our first people as an afterthought", "Edghill must Gooo!", "We deserve safe passage home", "Safe passage is a right not a privilege."
• "She also criticised the Commission of Inquiry's establishment, arguing it should have involved broader consultation rather than unilateral government action."
• [SINGLE SOURCE] Protester Cowen Gittens "argued the government bore responsibility as vessel owner, operator, and sector regulator" — the clearest public statement of the conflict-of-role point in the corpus.
• [SINGLE SOURCE] Andrew Campbell "called for resignations from Edghill, Minister of Amerindian Affairs Sarah Browne, and other officials" — the first time a THIRD minister is publicly named in a resignation demand.
• Gittens: "If that's the only means of transportation, it should be of a certain standard. It shouldn't be at a position where lives are lost before we make a change."
• Timestamped 2:11 AM GMT-4 on 30 July, reporting the previous day's events.

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