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Bai Shan Lin grinds to a halt, Region 10’s small loggers have no buyer

 

The operations of the Chinese logging company, Bai Sha Lin, have ground to halt and the livelihoods of numerous Guyanese who sold logs to that company have been disrupted, Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman said Wednesday.

“The company’s operations are at a standstill right now,” he said.

Briefing the bipartisan parliamentary committee on natural resources, he said Bai Shan Lin has ceased operations because government has restricted the company’s export of crabwood logs due to complaints of shortages by local furniture manufacturers, poor demand in Asia, and internal company administrative issues.

Trotman said now that the company’s operations have “come to a halt,” government hoped that buyers could be found for logs already harvest by small loggers in Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice). “I can tell you that as I go into Region 10 in particular the small loggers are crying out because they have logs cut and there is no one to buy their logs so every action has a reaction and an effect,” he said.

One of the options being explored, he said, is for the Guyana Forestry Commission to “bring in as man logs as possible and maybe hold an auction on the international market to see what we can sell.” “We may not be able to recover all costs but I believe that we owe it to the people who have cut… that we can do something to alleviate some of their losses.”

Bai Shan Lin had been repeatedly assailed by the APNU+AFC coalition in and out of government about its repeated failures to meet its contractual obligations to get into value-added production rather than export raw logs and to construct several upscale residential houses at Providence, East Bank Demerara.

Government is awaiting the arrival of officials of a larger Chinese company that has expressed an interest in taking over Bai Shan Lin.

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Dem China men promised wealth and prosperity in return for hauling our jungle away to China. Did anyone in the PPP seriously believe that these Chinese would behave respectably in Guyana, when they have known to plunder Africa after paying bribes? They did not go bankrupt. They just came with an excuse so that they did not have to implement their part of the contract. The new company is just the same old one. They just want to continue where the old company left off, but this time there is a new government to bribe, and no old contract commitments to live up to. In the mean time the loggers who were helping the Chinese to flatten ur landscape are upset that there is a lapse in their criminal act.

Mr.T
Bibi Haniffa posted:

Shop closing down.  One by one.

I just made reference to the PNC killing the Golden Goose that lays the golden egg in another post.

Guyana is headed to economic disaster under PNC part two. 

I correctly used the term Ko Ko Beah to describe these AFC/PNC funny fellas. I have been proven correct.

If these clowns are depending on oil money, they better think again. The revenues will be nowhere what these fools are looking forward to.

AFC/PNC = A bunch of clueless clowns and losers.

Granger's son in law is another clueless clown, he cannot attract investment since he is too dumb and lack basic skills to do so.

This is year one, the destruction of Guyana starts now. Tell your relatives to get their visas and board the plane now. The Carl Greenidge syndrome has started. 

Everything that these clowns touch will be destroyed. The are busy emptying the treasury the the PPP left intact. They have no idea on how to build and save.

The recent event in which many political analysts are calling a Blackman Fest is an example of what I am speaking of.

 

FM
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Guyanese value added industries cannot get wood yet you scream that the Chinese must export logs, with leave still attached to China.

NO country other than Guyana allows that.  If the Chinese don't like that then they should leave and have some one who does value added processing in Guyana replace them.

FM
caribny posted:

Guyanese value added industries cannot get wood yet you scream that the Chinese must export logs, with leave still attached to China.

NO country other than Guyana allows that.  If the Chinese don't like that then they should leave and have some one who does value added processing in Guyana replace them.

You fools don't get it.  Had your foolish PNC allowed cheap power to be built out in Guyana, then companies would find it viable to do more downstreaming.  Your PNC clowns are in a fix and cannot gain traction except for small time captive industries.  

FM
ba$eman posted:
.  Had your foolish PNC allowed cheap power to be built out in Guyana, .  

The PPP couldn't even build a road to Amaila and you are trying to tell us that they had the ability to build a dam.  That would have been an even bigger albatross around the necks of Guyanese than Skeldon factory.

The Brazilians offered to build a dam, a road and a harbor.  The PPP ignored them.  Brazilians know how to do these things, but its too late, given that country's current problems.  The PPP doesn't even know how to build a drive way.

FM
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Bibi Haniffa posted:

Bai Shan Lin grinds to a halt, Region 10’s small loggers have no buyer

 

The operations of the Chinese logging company, Bai Sha Lin, have ground to halt and the livelihoods of numerous Guyanese who sold logs to that company have been disrupted, Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman said Wednesday.

“The company’s operations are at a standstill right now,” he said.

Briefing the bipartisan parliamentary committee on natural resources, he said Bai Shan Lin has ceased operations because government has restricted the company’s export of crabwood logs due to complaints of shortages by local furniture manufacturers, poor demand in Asia, and internal company administrative issues.

Trotman said now that the company’s operations have “come to a halt,” government hoped that buyers could be found for logs already harvest by small loggers in Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice). “I can tell you that as I go into Region 10 in particular the small loggers are crying out because they have logs cut and there is no one to buy their logs so every action has a reaction and an effect,” he said.

One of the options being explored, he said, is for the Guyana Forestry Commission to “bring in as man logs as possible and maybe hold an auction on the international market to see what we can sell.” “We may not be able to recover all costs but I believe that we owe it to the people who have cut… that we can do something to alleviate some of their losses.”

Bai Shan Lin had been repeatedly assailed by the APNU+AFC coalition in and out of government about its repeated failures to meet its contractual obligations to get into value-added production rather than export raw logs and to construct several upscale residential houses at Providence, East Bank Demerara.

Government is awaiting the arrival of officials of a larger Chinese company that has expressed an interest in taking over Bai Shan Lin.

Good. We should have a moratorium on some logs especially over utilized ones as crabwood and the ornament hardwood trees ie bulletwood and wamara.

Trees should be used only for local consumption. Let the Chinese go home.

FM
yuji22 posted:

Yes Buck Bai

Chase out investors and foreign companies. Straw Hats and hammocks will develop Guyana. 

Your backwards mentality is in intact to this day.

Did you ever think why Chinese came all the way to Guyana to export trees with leaves still stuck.

Its because Asian and African nations refuse to allow tree limbs to be exported. Only the dumb PPP allowed this to happen, leaving Guyana risking eco disaster and not having generate the revenues to mitigate this.

FM

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