With poor families struggling for survival, many youths in Berbice have started to work at an early age mostly in risky conditions “to make ends meet” and some end up losing their lives.
This scourge replicates itself in other parts of the country and falls afoul of International Labour Organisation conventions on the minimum age of admission to work and the worst forms of child labour.
The young Berbicians work mostly as fishermen while others work as labourers at places including factories and sawmills although they are
