Women Miners want better security.

Women Miners want better security.

The Guyana Women Miners Organisation has issued a call for there to be the presence of more policemen in the mining districts. The call comes in wake of yet another murder of a miner at an interior location.

In a statement issued Thursday, the group said “many times because of no police presence in these areas murders go unsolved and grieving families continue to be denied justice.”

Over the past year, there has been a rise in the reported cases of murders in many of the gold mining communities deep in Guyana’s interior and miners are not the only ones being targeted. Last year, two policemen were murdered and their bodies partly burnt after being tied to a tree.

The Women miners organisation wants the issue of crime in the interior to be given full attention noting that “it is sad that while gold prices continue to rise and the industry contributes heavily to the economy, the relevant authorities do not find it important to put mechanisms in place to protect the men and women who risk their lives to earn a better living”.

The group said they will continue to champion the cause of all those who work in the interior and will not rest until the Government makes tangible moves to provide better security for interior workers.

And in wake of two recent tragic accidents in the interior which claimed the lives of five persons, the women miners also want attention to be paid to infrastructural development since the roads are in a deplorable state and the mining sector makes the largest contribution of the productive sectors to the Government.

The Guyana Women Miners Organisation has also expressed its sympathy and deepest regret to the families of those miners and interior shop keepers who were recently killed in two accidents while heading to mining camps.

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