Significant changes in the mining industry resulting from the profits that now accrue to investors continue to present challenges to the regulatory capacity of the state machinery, a Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) senior official has told Stabroek Business.
While declining to comment on a recent pronouncement by the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) that the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) is “overwhelmed” by developments in the sector, GGDMA Administrative Officer Colin Sparman said that it would be entirely fair to say that the GGMC is inadequately equipped to perform its monitoring functions effectively in a continually expanding gold industry.
Sparman told Stabroek Business that up to a year ago the GGMC employed around 50 mines officers in circumstances where the entity probably needed up to 150 such officers to cover the
