Women miners body asked to help train young Itaballi women

Judith David-Blair

Women of Itaballi Landing on the Essequibo River have appealed to the Guyana Women Miners Association (GWMA) to help to train young females in the community so they could find jobs and help others get ownership of their mining claims.

These were some of the issues women who gathered at the Itaballi Community Centre raised with the members of the organisation who travelled to location to sensitise the womenfolk about the GWMA and its aims and objectives.

While the GWMA hopes to empower women miners and all women who work in the mining sector, the women of