Georgetown : Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon at a post-Cabinet expressed Cabinet’s disappointment in the recently published 2011 United States (US) State Department Report on Trafficking in Persons (TIP).
“Cabinet declared its rejection of the continued and questionable US Government practice of making unsubstantiated pronouncements about the affairs of sovereign states,” Luncheon said.
He pointed out that the assertion in the report that alleges complicity by Guyanese authorities in handling issues related to trafficking is also out rightly rejected by Cabinet, as well as the failure to provide evidence to validate these claims.
This year’s report moves Guyana up to Tier 2 which relates to countries whose governments do not fully comply with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) minimum standards but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards.
Last year Guyana was placed on the Tier 2 watch list for the fourth consecutive year implying that the absolute number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is significantly increasing and that there is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year.
The Guyana Government rejected the report as well, with the claims not being substantiated.
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