Guardians of Guyana
… but busy cutting new roads to Waini River Chinese company, Bai Shan Lin’s operations in Kwakwani, Upper Berbice River, may have evoked widespread public anger and disbelief over the magnitude, but there are indications now that those operations pale in comparison to what is happening in the Kwebanna, Waini area in Region One, Essequibo. … Read more
– without proper declaration More information continues to surface about the operations of Chinese company, Bai Shan Lin, in Guyana. Several questions which have now arisen include whether Bai Shan Lin, among other companies, is exporting rare wood such as Locust and Wamara, without declaration to the Customs Administration.Several sources within the Ministry of Natural … Read more
Parliament will have to wait until October for any discussion on the activities of the Chinese Company Bai Shan Lin. Parliamentarian Joseph Harmon of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) on Monday, sought the intervention of the Speaker of the House, Raphael Trotman, to call an “extraordinary sector committee meeting” to have Bai Shan Lin … Read more
– Pays locals as little as $500 a day – Solomon In January 2013, Bai Shan Lin Forest Development Inc. advertised for 700 Guyanese workers.In advertisements in the media, Bai Shan Lin said that it had vacancies for 220 factory construction workers, 80 skilled chain-saw operators, 80 semi-skilled chain-saw operators, 30 bulldozer operators, 35 loading … Read more
In attempting to defend shocking revelations that Bai Shan Lin is involved in an unprecedented level in logging in the country, the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) has placed a full page advertisement in Kaieteur News.However, the Commission has failed to address the large stockpiles of logs at Kwakwani and in Region 10 that was found … Read more
What is now being highlighted by Kaieteur News for all of Guyana, and indeed the regional and international communities to see, comes as no shock to Region 10. “Our region has been dealing with this for some time now, but we are pleased that we are no longer fighting alone.”This was expressed by Region 10 … Read more
“The government is silent about this immoral and abusive act and there can only be one logical conclusion for that—they are benefitting financially in exchange for allowing the rape to continue. Citizens need to understand the corrupt beast that it (Govt.) is dealing with. It is only a win-win deal for the parties involved and … Read more
Unprocessed Locust and Crabwood should first satisfy local demand before any such wood can be exported overseas; but this is not the case with Bai Shan Lin.It has been found that the company is planning to export over the course of the next six months, 250,000BM of Locust wood, despite local operators approaching them to … Read more
As Kaieteur News continues to expose the wrongdoing of the largest logging company operating in Guyana—Bai Shan Lin—General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Clement Rohee has suggested that the newspaper is doing so out of spite. Yesterday Rohee hosted his Party’s weekly press conference at Freedom House. At that forum Kaieteur News asked … Read more
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has denied ever giving Chinese company, Bai Shan Lin International Forest Development Inc. any permission to do logging. A senior official at the EPA said that as stands right now, Bai Shan Lin is having meetings with them regarding “scoping”.It was explained that “scoping” is another aspect of its Environmental … Read more