Key Facts
—What. The village chief of Chinese Landing, an Indigenous community in Guyana, says miners beat her and other residents on Thursday 12 November 2026.
—Official response. Guyana’s Natural Resources Minister Vickram Bharrat said “police are investigating.”
—As of 13 November 2026, 6:00 am ET (11:00 GMT)
Toshao Nikita Miller, the village chief (toshao) of Chinese Landing, an Indigenous community in Guyana, says gold miners beat her and other residents on Thursday night, 12 November 2026, Demerara Waves Online News, a Guyanese news site, reported. She says residents had seized an excavator to stop mining, and alleges a named miner took her unloaded gun and that he and a worker fired 10 shots over residents’ heads.
Natural Resources Minister Vickram Bharrat told the outlet that “police are investigating.” The miners’ account was not in the report, and the allegations are unproven.
The long-running dispute has reached the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the human rights body of the Organization of American States. See our gold-mining coverage and Guyana news hub.
Sources: Demerara Waves Online News, 13 November 2026 (single report; no second independent source found).
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