The recently commissioned official enquiry into accidents in the mining regions in Guyana including mining pit cave-ins that result in loss of life is unlikely to serve any remedial purpose except the authorities are successful in enforcing rules and regulations that change key aspects of the operating culture in the mining sector, an experienced mining sector employee has told this paper.
Stabroek Business has confirmed that the newspaper’s informant has recently returned to his East Coast Demerara home having been an employee at a large mining operation in Region One for more than two years. He says