While the opposition APNU+AFC has condemned recent comments made by new Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat of gross mismanagement of the sector—the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) in particular, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Gail Teixeira has said that the GFC is in fact bankrupt.
In a video uploaded to the Office of the President’s Facebook page last Friday, Teixeira said that the GFC is unable to pay its staff, and did not pay salaries for the month of July because it did not have money.
After a meeting on Thursday with Heads of the various agencies under the purview of the natural resources ministry, Bharrat’s ministry said in a press release that he received a “grim” report.
