{"id":56951,"date":"2026-07-19T10:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ferry-carrying-116-passengers-sinks-off-guyana-coast-authorities-say\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T10:52:09","slug":"ferry-carrying-116-passengers-sinks-off-guyana-coast-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/ferry-carrying-116-passengers-sinks-off-guyana-coast-authorities-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferry carrying 116 passengers sinks off Guyana coast, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A ferry carrying 116 passengers has sunk off the coast of Guyana with<\/b><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\"> <\/b><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">53 people so far rescued, local authorities have said.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The MV Barima capsized near Iron Punt, on its route from Georgetown to Port Kaituma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A distress call was received at 23:01 local time (03:01 +1 BST), triggering an urgent search operation involving state and private boats, Public Works Minister Juan Edghill said in a statement posted on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The state of the operation is currently unclear and it is not known whether authorities expect to rescue the remaining passengers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The MV Barima was built in 1939 and is 40m (131ft) long, according to a listing on VesselFinder. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Edghill said it was fitted with 250 life jackets, two rigid life crafts and six inflatable life crafts.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prime Minister Mark Phillips is said to be leading the government response. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cm2gm99nrm7o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ferry carrying 116 passengers has sunk off the coast of Guyana with 53 people so far rescued, local authorities have said. The MV Barima capsized near Iron Punt, on its route from Georgetown to Port Kaituma. A distress call was received at 23:01 local time (03:01 +1 BST), triggering an urgent search operation involving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56953,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56951\/revisions\/56953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}