Edghill and others must go

What this source establishes

The letter cites a Gazette Order dated 21 October 2025 assigning Minister of Public Works Juan Anthony Edghill responsibility for "Shipping and Harbour Services", and Cabinet Memorandum CP (2026) MOPW08/02 as the instrument under which he appointed the T&HD board. No other 31 July item cites these documents. The letter names the T&HD board as: Rosalinda Rasul (Chairperson, Head of Diaspora Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs); Yurlander Hughes (former Personnel Manager, now Acting General Manager); Annaser Hamilto

Key claims

• [SINGLE SOURCE] The letter cites a Gazette Order dated 21 October 2025 assigning Minister of Public Works Juan Anthony Edghill responsibility for "Shipping and Harbour Services", and Cabinet Memorandum CP (2026) MOPW08/02 as the instrument under which he appointed the T&HD board. No other 31 July item cites these documents.
• [SINGLE SOURCE] The letter names the T&HD board as: Rosalinda Rasul (Chairperson, Head of Diaspora Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs); Yurlander Hughes (former Personnel Manager, now Acting General Manager); Annaser Hamilton; Louise Williams (Director of Ports at MARAD); Indranauth Haralsingh; Dhanraj Singh; Jonathan LaCruz.
• [ALLEGATION] The letter alleges a regulatory conflict: "Ms. Louise Williams is both a regulator (MARAD) and a Board member of the operator (T&HD). Is it ethical for the regulator to regulate themselves when the public's lives are involved?"
• [ALLEGATION] It attacks the chairperson's record, asserting she was Country Manager of EZjet Air Services when the US Department of Transportation suspended its licences in November 2012. These are contested characterisations of a named private individual.
• [SINGLE SOURCE] Financial claims: T&HD received in 2024 "GUY$1.2 billion in operational subsidies and GUY$5.1 billion in capital contributions", revenues of GUY$1.2 billion against employment costs of GUY$1.4 billion and fuel costs of GUY$1.3 billion, sourced to the Ministry of Finance website.
• Demands: that Edghill and Hughes "vacate their positions until the Independent Commission of Inquiry complete its work", and that the entire board be "sacked for abandonment of oversight, failure of duty of care, and ineffective corporate governance".
• [CONTRADICTS ARCHIVE] The letter opens by saying the vessel capsized "off the Pomeroon River with some 100 Guyanese dying". The archive figure is ~103 dead or missing, with 73 bodies recovered on the domestic count and about 30 unaccounted for; "some 100 dying" conflates the recovered and the missing.

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