The Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) and the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security yesterday rescued two women—including a Trinidad national—from the 14 Miles Backdam, in Region Seven, where they were being held against their will by a shop owner.
Late last evening President of the GWMO Simona Broomes, members of her Trafficking in Persons (TIP) unit and employees of the ministry were travelling out of the backdam with the two women, one of whom told this newspaper that she was “going out of my mind and thought a woulda dead in there.”
Broomes told Stabroek News that on Wednesday she received a call from one of the victims, who begged her to come and get them and she