By Joseph Allen
With the continued calls being made by the Indigenous community of Chinese Landing on the Government to evict a controversial miner from their lands, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo is insisting that government cannot act on the issue now and have mining activities stopped.
At the National Toshaos Council Conference 2023, being held at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, in Liliendaal, Greater Georgetown, the issue of mining at Chinese Landing continues to surface in many discussions.
As such, on day two of the conference on Tuesday, the issue was again raised, and this time, Vice President Jagdeo, who was at the time speaking during the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) presentation said that the government can only act in response to the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (IACHR) request and not the request to stop mining.