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US TIP report not farfetched-Corbin

Jul 10, 2010 News

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform, Robert Corbin, says that while his party did not conduct its own in depth research into trafficking in persons in Guyana, it has described the report prepared by the US as not “farfetched”
Corbin explained to media operatives, yesterday, that the party did not have the resources to conduct its own report.
The party’s shadow Health Minister, Dr George Norton, at the party’s most recent press briefing lashed out at the administration’s response to the report.
Norton said that his party is convinced that the vehement reaction by Members of the Government to the U.S State Department 2010 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report is baseless and unjustified.
He said that the report clearly indicates areas of Government initiative, but cites the underlying reason for Guyana remaining in the same position on the graph, over the reporting period.
“The major reason is the failure of the government to present constructive strategies for eliminating human trafficking and, more particularly, for addressing the conditions of forced prostitution and forced labour.”
According to Dr Norton, the report explicitly presents the prevailing conditions; “the government’s response over the reporting period, and the crucial areas that need to be urgently addressed if there is to be any significant impact on Human Trafficking in Guyana.”
He said that his party is urging the Administration that instead of voicing empty rhetoric and accusing the writers of the report of gross inaccuracies, it should immediately conduct an objective and impartial survey to determine how extensively these conditions persist.
“Pursuant to this, measures should have been implemented to effectively stem the flow of trafficking…Why would the authors of the report present falsified information?”
He said that his party is warning the government that rather than continue its usual antics of denial and their paranoia for attacking the messenger, they should take resolute and positive action to make significant inroads toward stemming the conditions which contribute to the continuance of human trafficking in Guyana.
Dr Norton said that it is evident, “contrary to the claims of the Administration, that the report acknowledges the efforts made by the government. However, what it emphasises is the slow response and the negligence of the Government to pursue the perpetrators and impose the penalties, as outlined in the Act of 2005.”
He said that his party is not deceived by the claims of the Administration, since the available evidence confirms that there is a lack of commitment and political will to pursue and bring human traffickers, “like narco-traffickers, to justice and deserved punishment.”

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