Jul 21, 2026 Editorial, News

(Kaieteur News) – There will be commissions on the sidelines of Guyana. Citizens of this country, shocked men and women, will conduct their own postmortems. Public commission or private inquiry, the outcome will terminate at the same revealing place. The sinking of the MV Barima and the loss of many envelop a tragedy fuelled by the accelerants of travesty.

The PPP/C Government, through its tightly knit bunch of spokespeople, was already on the move. To steer the conversations and reactions away from failure. They failed abjectly, due to the fact that several revelations could not be suppressed, hidden from the public, the fate of so many worrying issues in Guyana. Rather than disappearing obediently into the fast-moving streams of news developments, the travesties took over, would not be denied, and took on a life of their own. About indiscipline with overload, recklessness with alcohol, and a boat older than Independent Guyana. Dozens of lives probably lost, and the first efforts are at damage control, with a spinning machine revving up to leap into top gear. It did, but only made matters worse.