Answering the people(Kaieteur News) Guyana has been forced to deal with national crises before. A crime wave with heavily armed escapees from the 2002 Mash Jailbreak, phantom squads, and extrajudicial murders all wreaking havoc. On 18th July, 2026 what is described as Guyana’s biggest national maritime disaster sent this country into a nosedive. Aside from the usual circling of wagons, that has been the sum of national leadership. It was inevitable that in a tragedy of this magnitude, the calls for a Commission of Inquiry (COI) would multiply.