New anti-trafficking in persons measures to be implemented -Broomes

Simona Broomes

Defending the raid at a Bartica nightclub which resulted in several women suspected of being trafficked being taken into custody but no charges being laid against the alleged traffickers to date, junior Minister of Social Security Simona Broomes says that there is need for a proper unit to tackle this crime.

She said that the new administration would put mechanisms in place to effectively fight the scourge of human trafficking and contended that this was an issue that was ignored by the past administration.

Two Saturdays ago, Broomes and members of the police and the Guyana Women Miners Organisa-tion (GWMO) – which she had