Lewis calls for body to monitor foreign investments

In the wake of bauxite companies Bosai and Rusal failing to deliver on several promises made to the Guyanese people, veteran trade unionist Lincoln Lewis is calling for the establishment of a Foreign Investment Commission that will monitor all investors in the country.

Lewis, who is the General Secretary of the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU), during a recent interview with Stabroek News, expressed his disappointment at the failure of the bauxite companies to deliver on their promises, especially to build an aluminium plant here.

In January, during the budget debates, Prime Minister Sam Hinds told the National Assembly that a feasibility study conducted by the Chinese company Bosai Minerals Group late last year did not favour the establishment of an alumina plant in