{"id":30980,"date":"2026-07-21T14:35:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=30980"},"modified":"2026-07-21T14:35:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:35:05","slug":"guyana-declares-three-days-of-national-mourning-for-mv-barima-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/guyana-declares-three-days-of-national-mourning-for-mv-barima-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Guyana declares three days of national mourning for MV Barima victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Dr. Irfaan Ali has declared three days of National Mourning in honour of the victims of the MV Barima tragedy.<br><br>The period of mourning will be observed from Wednesday, July 22, to Friday, July 24, 2026, as the nation continues to grieve one of Guyana&#8217;s deadliest maritime disasters.<br><br>During the three-day period, the National Flag will be flown at half-mast on all Government buildings and other appropriate locations across the country.<br><br>Wednesday, July 22, has also been designated a National Day of Prayer. A National Day of Prayer and Remembrance will be held at the Kingston Seawall in Georgetown, bringing together citizens in tribute to those who lost their lives.<br><br>The observances will continue with a Night of Reflection and Prayer in Port Kaituma on Thursday, July 23, followed by another in Mabaruma on Friday, July 24.<br><br>The President has also encouraged religious organisations, civic groups and citizens throughout Guyana to host candlelight vigils and moments of prayer as part of the national observance.<br><br>The official proclamation declaring the three days of National Mourning will be published in the Official Gazette.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Dr. Irfaan Ali has declared three days of National Mourning in honour of the victims of the MV Barima tragedy. The period of mourning will be observed from Wednesday,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[488,370,1151,412,405],"class_list":["post-30980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-488","tag-guyana","tag-mv-barima","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30982,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30980\/revisions\/30982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}