The Chinese Landing Village Council is calling on the government to engage with it on implementing the recommendations of the IACHR on the protection of residents of the north west community and it has also raised the matter of the ban on villagers’ small mining which it says is affecting livelihoods.
For years, the village council has tussled with miners and on July 21, 2023, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) issued Resolution 41/2023, through which it granted precautionary measures in favour of members of the Indigenous Carib Community, who it said are “currently at serious, urgent risk of suffering irreparable harm to their human rights”.
The government has since written the IACHR – a principal and autonomous body of the Organization of American States – requesting a withdrawal of the precautionary measures, stating that the granting of the measures was based on misrepresentation.
