Probe of Aranka cave-in deaths finds ‘gross negligence’

The report being presented by Chief Labour Officer, Charles Ogle (right) to Minister of Natural Resources, Robert Persaud.

While “gross negligence” has been found at the mining operation at Aranka, Cuyuni, where three persons died in a mining pit cave-in earlier this month, there is no one to hold responsible as the operator was among the dead.

“The information I received was that the employer, he was [a] casualty himself, hence who is responsible,” Chief Labour Officer Charles Ogle said yesterday, when asked who would be held culpable