Dozens of small miners from various mining syndicates from around the country yesterday staged a protest outside of the Guy-ana Geology and Mines Commission Headquarters, while claiming that they were still being treated unfairly by the agency.
“Syndicates in one. The way to go,” “Syndicates must have land to work,” “Small miners need land,” were some of the chants by the miners, who numbered around 40, as they stood with their placards and braved the bad weather.
President of the Karrau Mining Syndicate, Judith Blair said that for over a year the syndicates have been having problems with acquiring the land. “The period it is taking is long and some of the lands the syndicates have applied for, for some reason or another, we are not being given the land. If it is not that,
