The Ministry of Home Affairs welcomes the initiative by the Ministry of Labour to investigate recent allegations of misconduct by certain Chinese nationals resident in Guyana against a number of Amerindian Guyanese citizens previously employed by China Trading Co.
More specifically, the Ministry is deeply concerned about the allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse by the same Chinese nationals committed against Amerindian girls and boys while in the employ of the company.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has called upon the Guyana Police Force to investigate these allegations in the context of the Sexual Offences Act recently assented to  by President Bharrat Jagdeo.
President Jagdeo publicly assented to the historic Sexual Offences Bill 2009 on Monday before a wide cross-section of society, testimony to its importance. A public awareness campaign was also launched at Police Officers Mess, Eve Leary, Georgetown.
The campaign to support the Sexual Offences Act, referred to as a modern and progressive piece of legislation, is an aggressive and wide ranging public education campaign to create, among the general population, an awareness of the new offences and penalties under the law.
The campaign will be delivered in two parallel tracks with overlapping goals and objectives, themed ‘Stamp it Out’ and ‘No More Tears’.
The ‘Stamp it Out’ builds on the initial work done during the drafting of the bill and the national consultations and will be directed at enforcement activities.
The ‘No More Tears’ track will focus on education and interventions aimed at social transformation and behavioral change at all levels of society.