There is no evidence of widespread corruption of mines officers, head of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) William Woolford says.
While allegations have been made, those making the allegations have not followed up on matters, he told Stabroek News in an exclusive interview yesterday. “We’re a rules based organisation as you’d expect us to be. We want to follow due process as you’d expect us to do and people who make the allegations and don’t step forward tie our hands,” the GGMC Commissioner said.

President Bharrat Jagdeo, addressing the annual officers’ conference of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) on Tuesday, told the officers that there is need for some of them in the state agencies and he singled out the GGMC. “I need …..