‘Landlordism’ strangling the mining sector

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A Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) Management and Systems Review undertaken in February and targeting the its Mines, Land Management and Geological Services Division has alluded to what a mining source has described as “evidence of outrageous irregularities” in the mining sector including a “tendency towards landlordism,” which the report says “has taken over the mining industry.”

The report calls on the GGMC to tackle the reform of the law to treat with what it says is “the growing menace of landlordism