Ministry engaging UK firm on regulatory system for gold industry

Team AXIS Guyana: Colin Bascom, John Venpin and Charles Beresford

A United Kingdom-based company, Focus Link Ltd is currently engaging the Ministry of Natural Resources in discussions aimed at the realization of “an enduring solution” to the multi-faceted compliance and regulation challenges plaguing the gold-mining sector.

Stabroek Business understands that in recent days a three-member Focus Link team has been engaging Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman in discussions that could lead to the installation of a hi-tech system that will shore up the integrity of the sector’s regulatory regime.

What is being termed a Content Management System (CMS), AXIS Guyana, as the project is titled, is being spearheaded by a lead project team comprising Guyanese-born, London-based Accountants Colin Bascom and Charles Beresford and Information Technology Specialist John Venpin, Founder and Managing Director of the UK-based web development company Marylebone Design.