MV Barima tragedy: Search and recovery mission ends; Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre remains active

What this source establishes

State figures on the day the search ended; corrects a 13 August entry. This record corrects this archive. On 13 August this site recorded, from Kaieteur's 5 August report, that the search was called off with no figures given at all. That is true of that report. It is not true of the day: the Office of the Prime Minister gave figures, and at least three outlets carried them.

Key claims

• **This record corrects this archive.** On 13 August this site recorded, from Kaieteur's 5 August report, that the search was called off with no figures given at all. That is true of that report. It is not true of the day: the **Office of the Prime Minister** gave figures, and at least three outlets carried them.
• Figures as announced: **73 confirmed dead, 76 survivors, approximately 30 missing, 5 of the deceased unidentified.**
• Sailing detail confirmed by the state: departed **Kingston Goods Wharf, Georgetown, 15:15 on 18 July 2026** with **179 aboard**, bound for Port Kaituma; distress signal at approximately **23:01** near the mouth of the Pomeroon River off the Essequibo Coast.
• PM Mark Phillips attended an inter-agency after-action review at Civil Defence Commission headquarters on 5 August with the GDF, the Police Force and other agencies.
• **[GAP] No public account of that after-action review has been published.** The archive holds the fact of the meeting and nothing of its content.

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