The government has “rejected” the recent U.S State Department findings on human trafficking in Guyana, saying its report is “riddled with fabrication” and ignores efforts at combatting the situation.
The Donald Ramotar administration has also announced that it would no longer be submitting responses in the US Embassy’s annual survey on Trafficking in Persons (TIP), complaining that these responses are not accurately reflected in the State Department’s report on the country.
In this year’s report, Guyana has been downgraded from Tier 2 to the Tier 2 Watch List for failing to demonstrate evidence of increasing efforts to hold trafficking offenders accountable with jail time over the previous reporting period. “While there have been some efforts to
