THERE is a certain lumber exporting company on the Linden Highway by the old glass factory that exploits Amerindian loggers.
Here is how the company operates. Amerindians turn up at the company’s operations site with the forest produce for sale. Half of this produce is unfairly graded – as not of good quality. The unsuspecting Amerindians would then be only paid for half of their produce while the other half remains at the Company’s site. It therefore remains anyone’s guess what becomes of the other half that is adjudged not of good quality.
This is barefaced exploitation by the lumber exporting company and it is important that the Office of the President, Ministry of Labour and the Guyana Revenue Authority conduct an investigation into this unscrupulous practice.
I am also advising International buyers who buy forest products from the company that they are helping to support the exploitation of indigenous people in Guyana, which must not be tolerated.
EDWARD CHARLES