Don't Bury the Truth

What this source establishes

Editorial position: the wreck must be raised. "The MV Barima is no ordinary shipwreck. It is a potential crime scene." The paper charges a government reversal: after initially pledging recovery and closure, the administration moved to leaving the ferry on the seabed as a memorial, then — after Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed offered to finance a salvage — announced that families would decide. "That abrupt reversal raises a troubling question. If salvage was always an option, why now it is left to the families to

Key claims

• Editorial position: the wreck must be raised. "The MV Barima is no ordinary shipwreck. It is a potential crime scene."
• The paper charges a government reversal: after initially pledging recovery and closure, the administration moved to leaving the ferry on the seabed as a memorial, then — after Opposition Leader Azruddin Mohamed offered to finance a salvage — announced that families would decide. "That abrupt reversal raises a troubling question. If salvage was always an option, why now it is left to the families to decide."
• "Every day that the vessel remains underwater increases the possibility that crucial evidence deteriorates or disappears forever."
• "To knowingly leave perhaps the most important exhibit on the ocean floor risks reducing the inquiry to an exercise built on incomplete facts."
• "Government insists it has 'nothing to hide.' If that is indeed so, then recovering the MV Barima should strengthen, not weaken its position."
• The editorial notes Transparency Institute Guyana Inc.'s position that appointing foreign commissioners alone does not make an inquiry independent if key stakeholders were excluded from its formation.
• "A memorial has its place. But memorials are built after every reasonable effort has been exhausted—not before."

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