{"id":699856,"date":"2026-07-19T11:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699856\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T11:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:26:11","slug":"ferry-carrying-116-passengers-sinks-off-guyana-coast-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/699856\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferry carrying 116 passengers sinks off Guyana coast, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A ferry carrying 116 passengers has sunk off the coast of Guyana with 53 people so far rescued, local authorities have said.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A ferry carrying 116 passengers has sunk off the coast of Guyana with 53 people so far rescued,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-699856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}