The Ministry of Amerindian Affairs is looking to assist the Domingo sisters – who survived a month-long ordeal in the jungle in 1995 – to recover money that was placed in trust for them and which they have since been unable to access.
The ministry’s Permanent Secre-tary Nigel Dharamlall told Stabroek News that at their management meeting on Monday, the matter was raised. He said staff at the ministry are looking into it to ensure that the young women get their money. An article based on an interview with one of the sisters appeared in last week’s Sunday Stabroek.
Bertina Domingo and her sister Bernadette, then 13 and 9 years old respectively, in 1995 wandered lost in the jungle for