Expert audit team set up to review safety, compliance standards for marine vessels – Pres Ali

What this source establishes

The second source on the Safety and Compliance Audit Team, published the same day as Kaieteur News and naming the same three members, which takes the appointment out of single-source territory. It carries the fuller quotation of the remit — oversight, enforcement, and "the highest practicable standards of safety and accountability" — and gives the toll as 73 dead and 30 missing from 179, which matters because it is the outlet closest to the administration carrying 73 while the government's own information service carried 72 on 30 July.

Key claims

• Corroborates the Kaieteur News report of the same day on the Safety and Compliance Audit Team, and names the same three members: Dr Ivor English (former Director-General, MARAD), Colonel Julius Skeete (GDF) and Captain Joseph Lewis (Marine Officer and Surveyor of Ships).
• Ali, quoted on the remit: the team will "examine compliance with applicable maritime safety requirements and make recommendations to strengthen oversight, improve enforcement and ensure that our vessels, operators and regulatory systems meet the highest practicable standards of safety and accountability."
• Gives the toll as 73 confirmed dead and 30 still missing from 179 aboard — the figure of record on this site, from the outlet closest to the administration, two days after the government's own information service gave 72.
• [UNRESOLVED] Like the Kaieteur report, it carries no deadline, no budget and no undertaking to publish the audit's findings.

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