MV Barima COI advances preparations for public hearings – Shadick

What this source establishes

State's account of CoI preparations; still no hearing date. The state's own account of where the Commission has got to, twenty-six days after the sinking and fourteen after the swearing-in: still preparing. Secretary Javid Shadick says arrangements for public hearings are being finalised and that formal notice to the public and the media will follow once procedures are complete.

Key claims

• **The state's own account of where the Commission has got to, twenty-six days after the sinking and fourteen after the swearing-in: still preparing.** Secretary **Javid Shadick** says arrangements for public hearings are being finalised and that formal notice to the public and the media will follow once procedures are complete.
• The only direct quotation the capture carries is **"They're working on checking the legal aspects"**. The secretariat is described as working through legal and administrative requirements and considering scenarios that may arise in proceedings.
• **Still absent from the state's own release: no hearing date, no notice date, no budget figure, no Statutory Instrument number, and no call for submissions.** Those have been open on this site since 26 July.
• Commissioners as DPI names them: **Justice Godfrey Phillip Smith** (Belize, chair); **Dr Andrzej Jasionowski** (Poland); **Captain Hamada Fouda** (Jamaica); attorney **Nyree Dawn Alfonso** (Trinidad and Tobago); **Rear Admiral (ret'd) Hayden Pritchard** (Trinidad and Tobago). Unchanged since 26 July.
• **[SPELLING]** DPI writes the Secretary's forename **Javid**; Kaieteur News writes **Javed**. The state's own spelling is recorded here and the archive does not resolve it.
• Figures: 76 rescued, 73 dead, 30 unaccounted for. **The release says nothing about the internal defect records reported the previous day.**

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