-says state agency has become a law unto itself
The Non-Governmental Organisation Policy Forum Guyana (PFG) is calling for the urgent reform of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC), the state agency charged with managing the nation’s mineral resources. According to a release on Wednesday from PFG the GGMC has become, in effect, “a law unto itself, operating, outside normal government financial controls, under its own statute and salary scales, and without any obligation to transfer surplus revenues to the Consolidated Fund.”
The PFG release referenced a recent Stabroek News report on a Puruni River land issue, which according to the PFG release, began as a disput
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