Some local jewellers are guilty of passing off poor quality gold jewellery as top-of-the-line, high-carat items, stakeholders say, insisting that the largely unregulated nature of the industry poses a near insurmountable challenge to efforts to stamp out the practice.
Recently, representatives of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission, the Gold Board, the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) and several local jewellers met Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce Manniram Prashad
