A United Kingdom buyer earlier this week shipped out a quantity of sawn greenheart lumber to the UK and the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) hailed the sale saying that it demonstrated government’s efforts to promote value-added processing in the country.
The government has been criticised for allowing large-scale exports of logs, particularly to China and India, without value-added processing being done here despite commitments by companies from those countries to do so. In particular, the Chinese logging company Bai Shan Lin and the Indian logging company Vaitarna Private Holdings Inc have come under scrutiny for their large-scale shipments of logs.
In a statement on Thursday, the GFC said government has been
