Give the Commission a chance to do its preparatory work

Aug 30, 2026 Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom

(Kaieteur News) – There is a legitimate public concern about the pace at which the Commission of Inquiry into the MV Barima tragedy is getting underway. Survivors, relatives of those who died and the wider Guyanese public understandably want answers. After such a devastating national tragedy, nobody should be surprised that every delay generates anxiety and questions.

But there is an equally important principle that must not be lost in the understandable impatience for answers. That principle is that a Commission of Inquiry should be judged by the quality and independence of its work, not by the speed with which it holds public hearings.