Poor, unsupervised and preyed upon-Itaballi women plead for help to save vulnerable teens

Simona Broomes

Women of Itaballi – a small mining and logging community on the Essequibo River – are calling on the authorities to take urgent measures to save the young girls of the village who they say are being sexually exploited by men including law enforcers.

The residents, who met with the Guyana Women Miners Organisation last Friday, strongly voiced their concerns pointing out that many of the young girls are left unsupervised by their