Workers employed by the majority Russian-owned bauxite mining company, Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) are now more hopeful of a comprehensive investigation into what they say are longstanding infractions on the part of the management of the company following last Tuesday’s visit to the operations at Aroaima in the Berbice River by a team from the Ministry of Social Protection led by Junior Minister Simona Broomes.
Shortly after she returned to Georgetown from Aroaima, Broomes told Stabroek Business in an exclusive interview that she felt “deeply disturbed” over what she said were “glaring cases of mistreatment” adding that the infractions that she had seen at BCGI’s Aroaima operations “simply could not be allowed to stand… Frankly,
