Even as reports surfaced on Wednesday that Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman had ordered that embattled Commissioner of the Guyana Geology & Mines Commission (GGMC) Rickford Vieira proceed on leave, sources intimate with the country’s mining industry have told Stabroek Business that the circumstances surrounding persistent rumours that Vieira might eventually be dismissed are “neither straightforward nor uncomplicated.”
On Thursday, one of the sources told this newspaper that the unfolding events that appear to be leading to Vieira’s likely demise are rooted in a “private war” between GGMC functionaries and officials of the Commission’s Board, the life of which expires in a matter of weeks.
On Wednesday Stabroek News reported that Vieira and three other GGMC officials were facing dismissal arising out of
