ACCORDING to Chief Labour Officer, Mr. Charles Ogle the Ministry of Labour, plans to hold seminars to address violations of labour laws by foreign nationals, particularly Brazilians, who have come to Guyana for employment or to pursue business ventures of their own. Firstly, the Ministry of Labour should acquaint themselves with the lives of the working miners and have  first-hand knowledge of their miserable living and working conditions of the slums, poverty, segregation, discrimination etc. This is vital if the ministry is to improve the working and living conditions of the miners. In the process, not only miners benefited but the industry has been progressively recovering despite some setbacks by the labour laws and all Guyanese are benefiting. The government aggressively goes down to business and begins to address the many issues of young Amerindian miners’ death because of negligence and inadequate training; inadequate supervision; unsafe designs of machinery and systems of work. The progressive labour relations bills should be enforced and not met with stiff opposition which allowed some unscrupulous foreign  employers to benefit by increasing the exploitation of miners .All miners welcome the readiness of the Ministry of Labour to intervene and hold seminars in all the mining areas and assist in resolving matters.
Since it is possible to get the law in place to facilitate the miners, a joint venture between the Ministry and the Guyana-Brazil Development Institute and the Brazilian mining and General Association is a move in the right direction; it will begin to provide active guidance to  miners and the businessmen in recognition of the profound commitment of miners to advance their well-being.
 New technologies in mining, new materials and chemicals, all pose new problems for miners. As such, the need for such a seminar is of equal importance; also of equal importance is knowledge about the hazards to which our miners are now being exposed. I am further  submitting that many of the ailments that now afflict old and young miners, could have been avoided by better organised seminars  years ago by the ministry.
The final task of the ministry is that of educating miners and their foreign and local employers of our labour laws and must be informed on an on-going basis about matters of workers and management rights.