MV Barima Tragedy Deepens | Guyana News

Guyana News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Jul 23, 2026 · 1m

The MV Barima disaster keeps unfolding with heart-wrenching updates: 65 bodies recovered, 44 identified, 23 released—offering tiny glimmers of closure. Seventy-six rescued, no change. Search now spans 2,100 sq km, and the wreck’s been found—French divers and support from Brazil and Trinidad & Tobago are helping bring it to shallower waters for recovery. But the chaos deepens: the official manifest listed 116 passengers and 17 crew, yet only 35 of 67 survivors were on it—32 “ghost passengers” made it out. And the captain and an engineer are in custody after testing positive for drugs. The…