Trotman, who along with the Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs Minister Sydney Allicock, met with officials of the National Working Group on the Minamata Convention on Mercury on Friday, said the use of mercury still exists in many villages, and more often than not, those very villagers are facilitating the practice.
“In the very villages mentioned, it is the villagers themselves who are using the mercury, sometimes you run away with the idea that it is some outside miner that does it and the villages look on helpless, but invariably I’m finding that they are very much involved.”
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