Two more Guyana Geology and Mines Commission workers (GGMC) passed away last week, purportedly due to kidney failure and the Guyana Civil Servants and General Workers Union (GCS&GW) says it is awaiting further information on whether mercury poisoning contributed to their deaths.
A statement from the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday afternoon expressed concern over what it said were the untimely deaths of two more GGMC workers – Latchman Chiti, a surveyor in his late 40s and Clement Proffit, a lab technician, who was in his early 60s.
The two deaths bring the GGMC worker death toll to four, after Dwayne De Jonge, a ranger, and Leroy Greene, a carpenter, passed away earlier this year.
