“Guyana cannot hope to promote itself as a country that is open to foreign investment on the basis of “a portfolio that turns its back on the exploitation of the workers of the country, the pillaging of its resources and one which appears to have no difficulty with the transgression of the laws of the country,” General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) Lincoln Lewis has said.
Lewis’ remarks, during an interview with Stabroek Business earlier this week, arose out of what he said was the reluctance of the political administration to act decisively to rein in “the excesses” of the management of the bauxite-mining company Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI), control