Women miners say land being taken from them

The women miners protesting yesterday

Some thirty members of the Guyana Women Miners’ Association (GWMA) yesterday called on members of Parliament to urgently address the growing instances of land being taken from them to facilitate new Amerindian settlements.

“This is not an attack on the Amerindians but we are saying that we will not allow politicians to use different race to tek land and give it to this one to get votes and all of dat. We are saying that we need