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Works and Trans­port Min­is­ter Jear­lean John yes­ter­day dis­missed a damn­ing S&P Glob­al ves­sel his­to­ry re­port on the MV Blue Wave Har­mo­ny, call­ing it “in­for­ma­tion on Wikipedia,” even though it flagged mul­ti­ple safe­ty and main­te­nance-re­lat­ed de­fects re­lat­ed to the ves­sel over the past two years.

The re­port, a core ship­ping-in­dus­try record used to vet ships world­wide, records the ship’s US Coast Guard de­ten­tion and lists around 30 de­fects flagged on the ves­sel in five coun­tries be­tween 2023 and 2025.

How­ev­er, com­ment­ing on a Guardian Me­dia in­ves­ti­ga­tion in yes­ter­day’s pa­per, which high­light­ed the ves­sel’s re­cent trou­bling his­to­ry, John was dis­mis­sive of the line of ques­tion­ing on pos­si­ble safe­ty is­sues this may raise for its use on the in­ter-is­land ser­vice, telling re­porters at the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress me­dia con­fer­ence: “This is some­thing, pub­lic in­for­ma­tion on some web­site called Wikipedia al­lyuh go and put up as ex­clu­sive. Ask a next ques­tion. Don’t ask me about that.”