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TPL Timber Sales Agreement suspended for breaching Forestry Act

Jul 28, 2008 News

The Guyana Forestry Commission has suspended the Timber Sales Agreement of Toolsie Persaud Limited (TPL).
Kaieteur News was told that a letter was sent to the company’s managing director, David Persaud, on Tuesday last informing them of the move.
The Forestry Commission and TPL have been at loggerheads since April of this year, after the commission had suspended the company’s State Forest Permit.
This was done after GFC found breaches in the harvesting regulation, for which the company had allegedly accepted liability.
GFC had fined the company $80M, but TPL moved to the court, preventing the commission from collecting the sum.
On June 30 last, Chief Justice Ian Chang ruled that the GFC withdraw its suspension notice directed to TPL.
The Forestry Commission had appealed the case, but subsequently withdrew that appeal last Friday.
A source close to the timber company told Kaieteur News that the letter stated that TPL had breached both the Forest Act and the Timber Sales agreement.
The company was also informed that a report was submitted to President Bharrat Jagdeo for consideration.
In the meantime, the company has to discontinue its forestry activities within the concession area.
Last week, the GFC had lashed out at the Forest Products Association (FPA), accusing it of deliberately attempting to ‘misinform’ the public about the commission’s move to close the harvesting operations of TPL.
This was after the timber company announced that it will be closing its forestry operations at Manaka, and its sawmilling operations on Lombard Street.
The FPA stated that the announcement by Toolsie Persaud of the closure of its forestry operations is as a result of GFC refusing to facilitate the concession operation of the company under its Timber Sales Agreement (TSA).
Responding to the FPA, the Forestry Commission said that the organization is seeking to ‘mislead’ the general public into believing that the GFC is ‘somehow responsible’ for TPL’s closure of its forestry operations, including the sawmilling facilities. 
According to the GFC, the breaches which the company was fined for were discovered during a routine post-harvest audit of TPL’s operations in 2007.
Based of the findings in 2007, the GFC said, it has since implemented more intensive monitoring programs, which have already resulted in one large company being found in breach of procedures in February 2008. 

 

 

 

 

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