Shopkeeper charged over assault of women miners’ president

Ann Marie Carter

Tiger Creek shopkeeper Ann Marie Carter was back before the court yesterday to answer a charge that she assaulted Simona Broomes, the president of the Guyana Women Miners’ Association (GWMO).

The charge was instituted two days after Carter was remanded to prison on a human trafficking charge.

It is alleged that Carter, of Lot 84 First Avenue, Bartica, on April 21, 2013, committed a