Miners’ group in year-long wait for meeting with Top Cop

A section of the audience at yesterday’s bi-monthly meeting of the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA).

The Guyana Gold and Diamond Miner’s Association (GGDMA) has been waiting for over a year for talks with Police Commissioner Henry Greene on crime in interior mining areas—a situation that President Bharrat Jagdeo dubbed “unacceptable” during a meeting with miners yesterday.

The issue was raised with Jagdeo when he met with miners during a GGDMA’s bi-monthly meeting, held yesterday at the Regency Suites on Hadfield Street.

Over the past several months, there has been a spate of armed robberies and murders within various parts of the