{"id":2673,"date":"2026-07-22T06:15:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/?p=2673"},"modified":"2026-07-22T06:15:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T10:15:48","slug":"minister-edghill-sets-record-straight-on-mv-barima-tragedy-not-overloaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/?p=2673","title":{"rendered":"Minister Edghill Sets Record Straight on MV Barima Tragedy: Not Overloaded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill has moved to debunk misinformation surrounding the MV Barima tragedy, insisting the vessel was not overloaded. In a video statement, Edghill revealed that the cargo manifest showed 268 tons against a licensed capacity of 284 tons, and only 116 passengers were on board out of a licensed 397. He attributed the incident to tide conditions, not overloading or mechanical failure. Survivors&#8217; videos from the hospital corroborate this account. Edghill described the overloading claims as &#8216;misinformation&#8217; meant to create panic and public mischief.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tg-source-video\" style=\"margin:1.25rem 0;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Freel%2F1351116747222133%2F%3Frdid%3D7UnVMhcTXjTMCWO0%26share_url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.facebook.com%252Fshare%252Fr%252F1aJuTrP6Wd%252F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=734\" width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;max-width:734px;width:100%;\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1351116747222133\/?rdid=7UnVMhcTXjTMCWO0&amp;share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2Fr%2F1aJuTrP6Wd%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch the original video on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"tg-source-credit\"><em>Article and image source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/reel\/1351116747222133\/?rdid=7UnVMhcTXjTMCWO0&amp;share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2Fr%2F1aJuTrP6Wd%2F\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">facebook.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister Edghill clarifies MV Barima tragedy, says tide caused incident, not overloading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-trinidad-and-tobago"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tringlobe.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}