Head of the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) Simona Broomes has called for greater protection and more responsive law enforcement for women miners.
Speaking at the organization’s second anniversary celebrations held at the Savannah Suite, Pegasus on Friday evening, Broomes said that due to escalating gun crimes, the women miners question the safety credentials of the sector and she said that there needs to be a greater police presence in the mining community.
“I am waiting for answers and to see changes. While on the coast you can see a heavy police presence, we invest even more in the mining sector and yet we are so vulnerable. In some cases you have miners coming and build outposts and they are empty because of the lack of manpower to fill these positions. I want to make a
