Numerous absences from meetings of the Board of Directors of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) may have led to many matters remaining unresolved and calls into question the competence of the board, a recent review of the mining agency says.
“The competence and commitment of the Board, as reflected through the numerous absences of its members must come in for some scrutiny as potential causative reasons for the large number of matters which remain outstanding and the manner of treatment of some matters,” the inception report of a Management and Systems Review of various divisions in the GGMC says. The report, compiled earlier this year, was authored by Dr Grantley Walrond, L. Heesterman and J. Goolsarran. Following a report in the Stabroek Business on Friday, the GGMC Board said in a statement that as a result of numerous complaints against the Commission and recommendations of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment, the Board of Directors undertook a review of the Management Systems and practices for critical departments/divisions of the Commission.
The exercise commenced in December 2014 and was aimed at reviewing the operations of the Mines Division, Land Management and Geological Services Divisions of the Commission to determine the coherence of the structures and functions, the adequacy of its staffing, the flow of its operations and to identify systemic problems and other
