No more ‘brokers’ for mining work permits – Rohee

From left to right: Police Commander for ‘E & F’ Division, Senior Superintendent Clifton Hicken; Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority, Khurshid Sattaur; Chairman of GGMC Board, Major General (rtd) Joseph Singh; a member of GGMC’s legal team; Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee and Coordinator of the Brazil/Guyana Development Institute Rogira Ferreira. Hidden is GGMC commissioner Karen Livan.

Government yesterday declared zero tolerance for illegal mining and for the corrupt processing of documents for non-nationals, informing that from now all middlemen and brokers have been eliminated.

At an almost three-hour interactive forum held between the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment and the Brazilian community at the Celina Atlantic Resort, Georgetown, this position was reiterated by both that subject Minister  Robert Persaud and Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee.

“There will be zero tolerance for breaches of our regulations and mining act as it pertains to all those who operate within the mining sector… Do not deal with any broker; do not deal with any