Barima Salvage Controversy Deepens as MARAD Claims Clash with Timeline, Evidence

What this source establishes

Independent corroboration; adds the MARAD Facebook EOI date. Independent corroboration of the salvage procurement conflict, and it dates MARAD's statement to Friday 7 August, not 8 August as this archive first recorded from the following day's report.

Key claims

• **Independent corroboration of the salvage procurement conflict, and it dates MARAD's statement to Friday 7 August**, not 8 August as this archive first recorded from the following day's report.
• MARAD: "no individual, company, or entity has been selected to undertake the salvaging"; the department says the Expression of Interest process began **2 August**; reports of pre-selection are **"FALSE and MISLEADING"**.
• **[UNRESOLVED] Village Voice sets three dates against one another.** MARAD's own **Facebook page** shows the EOI issued **1 August**, not 2 August. The KMS proposal obtained by Kaieteur is dated **28 July**. The proposal's own executive summary says the firm "has been invited by the Government" through MARAD.
• **MARAD's denial answers a question nobody asked.** It denies that a contractor has been *selected*. The documents in circulation are about who was *invited*, and when. Nothing published to date addresses the 28 July invitation.
• The plan attributed to KMS is US$8 million. Recorded here as reported; this archive holds no copy of the proposal.

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