Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Raphael Trotman yesterday said that the government will not be “lectured” to in the press on the issue of forestry concessions, while announcing that the arrival of officials from a company in China that may take over the operations of the controversial Baishanlin is being awaited.
The minister was at the time being questioned on the operations of Baishanlin by Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources, PPP/C MP Odinga Lumumba.
Trotman said there “seems to be quite an obsession with Baishanlin” but reiterated that as of December last year the ministry through the Guyana Forestry Commission had placed