The Chinese investors who were supposed to arrive in the country last month to conduct due diligence for the takeover of controversial logging company Baishanlin have not come, several officials have said.
Chair of the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) Board Jocelyn Dow recently told Stabroek News that no official from the Long Jiang Forest Industries Group had contacted the GFC while a senior government official said that no representative of the State-owned firm had arrived. Efforts to contact Minister of Natural Resources Raphael Trotman on the matter over the past few weeks have all been futile, despite the minister’s insistence that he is always available for comment.
It is not clear what the status of the deal is now. Several of Baishanlin’s projects have ground to a
