Since becoming operational last year, the investigative department of the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) has dealt with nearly 50 complaints and the single largest number concerned alleged racial discrimination in the workplace.
In a statement issued on Friday, the ERC revealed that its investigative department, which became operational on April, 24th, 2018, dealt with 13 complaints of racial discrimination at the workplace, eight complaints of religious discrimination, eight complaints of economic marginalisation, six complaints of political issues, four complaints of racial discrimination on a social media platform, two complaints of racial discrimination by a government agency, three complaints of racial discrimination in a public place, one complaint of racial discrimination by a private company and two labour related complaints.
The ERC also provided the ethnic composition of the complainants, 50 per cent of whom were Afro-Guyanese, 34 per cent Indo-Guyanese, six per cent Portuguese, and four per cent Amerindians, while the remaining six per cent were persons whose ethnicity were not known.
