Guardians of Guyana
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
– brought in over 200 trucks, 60 bulldozers, 40 loaders, luxury vehicles all duty-free As questions continue to swirl over the arrangements between the Government of Guyana and a Chinese company regarding the export of large quantities of logs, there are revelations now that an unprecedented number of duty free concessions were granted.These concessions include … Read more
…unable to say how much land under its control – Solomon Investments in Region Ten must be mutually beneficial, but this is not the case with Bai Shan Lin. Instead, the Chinese company is raping the region of its resources through massive exploitation, says Region Ten Chairman, Sharma Solomon, who in an interview with this … Read more
Even though Bai Shan Lin International Forest Development Inc. is yet to actually receive a logging licence, the company has teamed up with four companies in joint ventures to export billions of dollars worth in timber monthly.One official from the Guyana Forestry Commission explained that Bai Shan Lin International Forest Development does not have an … Read more
A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) executive member with shadow responsibility for Public Works and Transportation, Joseph Harmon, is contending that the concerns that the Amerindians have over the Chinese company Bai Shan Lin having logging concessions on their land title, is a legitimate one.Amerindian leaders of communities along the Rewa and Essequibo Rivers in … Read more
Amerindian leaders of communities along the Rewa and Essequibo Rivers in Region Nine are demanding to know the nature, location and scale of proposed logging concessions for Chinese company Bai Shan Lin.And as such they want the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) to “cease forthwith” any further processing of the Bai Shan Lin permit.Their demand is … Read more
Chinese company, Bai Shan Lin, does not have access to close to a million hectares of rainforest in Guyana as part of its mega investment plans, Minister of Natural Resources, Robert Persaud said yesterday.“It is wrong; it is misleading. And if Bai Shan Lin is saying that, it should withdraw it— and withdraw it immediately, … Read more
Bai Shan Lin has again come under fire from Region Ten Chairman, Sharma Solomon, this time for a breach of faith.There was an understanding that was entered into between the company and the Region, that concessionary measures would be granted for the company to have its trucks use the Mackenzie/Wismar Bridge, to transport laterite from … Read more