Massive Customs fraud taking place with BaiShanLin’s Wamara logs export – Bulkan
June 21, 2015 | By KNews | 
A prominent forestry expert has warned of a massive Customs fraud taking place in exports of Wamara logs to China.
Photo: BaiShanLin’s Managing Director, Chu Hongbo
In a letter published yesterday in Kaieteur News, Janette Bulkan said that public records available indicate systematic under-invoicing when it comes to shipping of the logs to especially China.
An Assistant Professor at a Canadian university, Bulkan is now urging for a forensic audit to be carried out in the natural resources sector.
Guyana learnt about Wamara logs last year after it was disclosed that one company, BaiShanLin, was shipping container loads of it out of Guyana every month. Continue reading
Father’s Day – Father, where are you? – By Rosaliene Bacchus
Syrian Children outside their UNHCR Tent – Refugee Camp in Jordan
Photo Credit: UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) /M. Abu Asaker
We live in a patriarchal world. With relatively few exceptions, our fathers, our men, determine the direction and evolution of our societies. This Father’s Day—with persistent inequality, a permanent state of violence and war, climate mayhem, and escalating destruction of human habitats—I ask: Father, where are you?
Father, where are you when a son goes on a shooting rampage, killing other human beings because he believes he has the right to do so?
Father, where are you when the leaders of our governments send our sons and daughters to fight in illegitimate wars of domination?
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