Simona Broomes is a woman who never allows someone else to fight her battles for her, but always ensures that she leads from the front. She believes that she has been targeted in various ways by those in authority, all of which came to a head in 2008 when she had her mining equipment and fuel seized resulting in indebtedness amounting to millions of dollars.
Now as the head of the Guyana Women’s Miners Organisation she wants to use her years in the struggle to motivate women working in the sector. She recalled pleading, begging and even insulting Prime Minister Samuel Hinds and Minister of Works Robeson Benn when the Guyana Geology & Mines Commission (GGMC) seized her equipment,
