Guyana gov’t ends MV Barima search and recovery exercise

What this source establishes

Last regional wire coverage located; the story goes domestic after 5 August. Caribbean Media Corporation wire copy. The last regional or international coverage this archive has been able to find. After 5 August the story appears to have gone entirely domestic — searches of the Gleaner, the Observer, Nation News, CBC Barbados, Caribbean National Weekly, Caribbean Today, Loop, Reuters, AP and the BBC turned up nothing dated 6–13 August.

Key claims

• **Caribbean Media Corporation** wire copy. The last regional or international coverage this archive has been able to find. **After 5 August the story appears to have gone entirely domestic** — searches of the Gleaner, the Observer, Nation News, CBC Barbados, Caribbean National Weekly, Caribbean Today, Loop, Reuters, AP and the BBC turned up nothing dated 6–13 August.
• Reports 73 dead and more than 30 missing and presumed dead; 76 rescued the morning after; **no further recoveries after that first morning**.
• Names the accused and their ages, records the adjournment to 7 September, and notes the Director of Public Prosecutions defended the murder charges as founded on evidence, legal principle and case law authority.
• Aubrey Norton, PNC/R: **"the government is totally responsible for what happened."**
• **The 87-year-old vessel is described as such in wire copy**, which is how the age entered international circulation.

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