Broomes wants meeting with business support organizations

Chatting with staff at a Regent Street cosmetics counter

Minister in the Ministry of Social Protection Simona Broomes is seeking a meeting with officials of urban business support organizations “as early as next week” to engage them in discussions arising out of her snap visits to several business houses along Regent Street, during which she unearthed “widespread and entirely unacceptable transgressions of labour laws” many of which extend into “human rights transgressions.”

In an exclusive interview with Stabroek Business on Tuesday, Broomes said she will be putting her concerns regarding labour transgressions to entities like the Private Sector Commission (PSC) and the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) “since I expect