Decrying what it says is the ignoring of the ‘battery of legal support’ available to the Government of Guyana to protect Amerindian communities from the impacts of small and medium scale mining, the Guyana Human Rights Association [GHRA] says that the GGMC must be held accountable for the devastation and not its junior officers.
This scenario of devastation, the GHRA said in a press release yesterday, has been repeated for decades, the more recent examples of lawlessness being found in the Marudi Mountain area of South Rupununi, the Potaro River, and Baramita, the Carib community in Region 1. The human rights body said that systematic tolerance for a range of legal and administrative breaches of all of the Acts related to mining is now institutionalized in the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission [GGMC].
