The inter-ministerial taskforce against human trafficking remained inactive up to eight months after the new government was voted into office last year, according to the US State Department’s 2016 Trafficking in Persons Report, which also said that while the government drafted an action plan to combat trafficking, it did not finalise it.
The report also knocked the David Granger-led government for not allocating additional personnel to the “severely understaffed” anti-trafficking unit and its failure to increase protection and services for victims outside the capital or participating in investigations against their traffickers. It said the state
