Miners are pleading with the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) and Crown Mining Supplies to ensure quick removal of the company’s sunken dredge in the Mazaruni River, which continues to leave them cut off.
“We can’t get fuel. We can’t get food. If anyone is sick then I don’t know what’s going to happen because we can’t get to transport them because of the `Draga’ blocking,” said Joylyn Lynch, a miner who has been plying her trade in the area for over 13 years.
Lynch told Stabroek News that while there is an alternative route overland, it is not
