More than a week after an investigation was launched into the claims of two cooks, who told authorities they were taken into the Omai Backdam to work by a dredge owner who then refused to pay them, they are yet to receive word on their payments.
“The GGMC [Guyana Geology and Mines Commission] promise us that they would help and they say they bring the man out and see how he could pay we, but since then nobody ain’t get back to us and this man working and getting gold,” one of the women, Vashawn Hopkinson, told Stabroek News yesterday.
With the Christmas holidays approaching, Hopkinson needs her
