Bai Shan Lin (BSL), a partially state-owned Chinese logging company began operating in 2007 in Guyana, a small but resource-rich South American country nestled between Venezuela and Suriname on the Caribbean coast to the north of Brazil. The victory of the ‘A Partnership for National Unity'...

There is a common assumption that when sustainable forest management (SFM) is not practised the reasons are usually a lack of knowledge or lack of training in applying those techniques. We trace the intermittent development of techniques for SFM in the tropical rain forest of Guyana (South...

This briefing paper is organised with the following sections:1. FDI arrangements for investment, milling, training, proportion of foreign staff2. Unregistered and unapproved changes in ownership structure of the Asian companies/trading of logging concessions3. Illegal renting and managerial...

Some of the consequences of the revision of Guyana's Mining Act in 1989 that was intended to open up access to international mining companies while safeguarding national mining interests are examined. However, a perverse outcome of the revision was that landlordism or rentier practices in the...

Political racialization has shaped the route to political power in Guyana from the mid-1950s, cementing ethnic insecurity and patronage politics. The 22-year rule of the East Indian-dominated party is threatened by disaffection with corruption and by emigration of its ethnic base. A so-called...