MARAD says no company chosen for MV Barima salvaging

What this source establishes

Verbatim MARAD statement; second outlet on the KMS document; parbuckling method. THIS RECORD CORRECTS A CORRECTION. On 13 August this archive shortened MARAD's quotation to "create public mischief", on the ground that "designed to" was the retrieval tool's connective prose. Kiskadee Watch carries the sentence verbatim and it is longer than the archive allowed: "These reports are false and misleading and are designed to create public mischief." The removal was itself an over-correction and the fuller quotation is restored across the site.

Key claims

• **THIS RECORD CORRECTS A CORRECTION.** On 13 August this archive shortened MARAD's quotation to "create public mischief", on the ground that "designed to" was the retrieval tool's connective prose. Kiskadee Watch carries the sentence verbatim and it is longer than the archive allowed: **"These reports are false and misleading and are designed to create public mischief."** The removal was itself an over-correction and the fuller quotation is restored across the site.
• MARAD verbatim, as carried here: **"MARAD wishes to clarify that no individual, company, or entity has been selected to undertake the salvaging of the MV Barima."** And: **"MARAD, therefore, strongly rejects any report or claim suggesting that an entity has already been selected or is being considered."**
• **A second outlet independently holds the KMS document**, and quotes it: **"KMS has been invited by the Government of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, through the Maritime Administration Department ('MARAD'), to submit a proposal for the righting and recovery of the passenger ferry MV Barima."** Dated **28 July**, before the public process. US$8 million.
• **Technical detail not held anywhere else in this corpus**: KMS proposes **parbuckling** — a controlled, buoyancy-assisted righting — combined with a dynamically positioned heavy-lift vessel of at least **850 metric tonnes** capacity.
• **[DATE]** Kiskadee gives the Expression of Interest as advertised **from 2 August**, following MARAD's own account. The Guyana Standard and News Room both reported the invitation on **1 August**, and Village Voice reports MARAD's Facebook page showing 1 August. This archive keeps 1 August, on the ground that a notice reported on 1 August cannot have issued on 2 August, and records MARAD's 2 August as the divergence.
• Kiskadee notes MARAD is silent on whether proposals were solicited before the public process began. **That silence has now held for a week.**

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