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We are appealing to Minister Trotman

Jul 16, 2015 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
Again, we as concerned Guyanese business persons are forced to go public, asking the new Government to take action to protect us.
Over the years, through good times and bad, we have toiled to invest in our country.
We have taken loans from banks. We had to endure thieves who stole our equipment, our parts. We paid our taxes. We were charged high taxes when we brought in parts.
We have had to make do with tough terrain, rains, floods, bad roads.
Yet we persevered. We complained but we plodded on.
But it appears that there will be a time when we can no longer take it anymore.
President David Granger and the coalition campaigned on the platform that there will be change. That they will investigate wrongdoing. That within the first 100 days we will see the rollout of the campaign promises.
Editor, we have sat back, fearful of talking about how foreign investors have been given billions of dollars in incentives, tax breaks and other considerations while we received little. We as operators of equipment and river barges are now seeing how these incentives and tax breaks are working against us.
We have publicly ventilated our concerns how one Asian company that was in the news last year for its logging activities was given permission to build barges. It was given concessions on materials and fuel. The idea we are told was the incentives were to be used for a specific reason- for use in the logging industry. We now learn that the barges are being used to compete with us locally. Local companies are hiring them to fetch stone and logs. How can we compete? We were never given these incentives.
How could it be that we are losing our livelihoods in our own country?
We are asking the new Natural Resources Minister, Raphael Trotman, to investigate how Bai Shan Lin and other companies are able to compete in the local arena.
We are asking for a level playing field. We are asking for justice. We are losing our livelihoods every day. We have children and we have debts. We have staffers. We are asking the new Government to stand by the elections promises of a level playing field. Every day that goes by, we will find it harder to recover.
Fearful Businessmen

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