The Project Steering Committee (PSC) of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) Project in Guyana held its Fourth Meeting on October 17, 2017, in the boardroom of the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC), Kingston, Georgetown. Photographed are some of the PSC members with team of the FCPF Project Execution Unit (PEU)….
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Following Barama Company Limited’s relinquishing of its 1.6 million hectare forest concession in October 2016, the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) has awarded two lots totaling over 800,000 hectares of that concession to R.L. Sukhram and Sons Sawmill and Rong-An Inc. The Ministry of Natural Resources along with…
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The Government of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana has received the first tranche of a US$6.34 million grant from the Kingdom of Norway as it enters into the second phase of the forest monitoring mechanism known as Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV). This second phase of the…
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Honourable Raphael G.C. Trotman M.P., Minister of Natural Resources, today August 4, 2017 met with a number of local hardware store and lumber yard representatives to discuss options to mitigate the high local demand for foreign pine wood, especially from the United States. This meeting was part…
