GGMC board asks gov’t to fire Vieira

Rickford Vieira

The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) board yesterday requested that government fire Commissioner Rickford Vieira, even as the country’s leading miners’ group announced that it had no confidence in Board Chairman Clinton Williams.

A plan to move a vote of no-confidence against Williams did not materialise when the board met yesterday, but the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) did write to government and indicate that it would boycott board meetings under his chairmanship.

The board, meanwhile, in the absence of the GGDMA representatives, decided to