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Mar 29, 2016 Letters
Dear Editor,
Further to my initial response to the article published in the Kaieteur News of Sunday, 13th March, 2016, headlined “National Assembly Clerk acquires 54,000 acres of mining lands in 3 years,” I wish to provide the following additional information in relation to the matter:-
1. Most of the areas applied for were prospected, that is, they were test for gold but found to be futile.
2. Some were inaccessible
3. Five were in an Amerindian reservation in the North West District and could not have been prospected.
4. Some were handed over to two of my partners who, I believe, have since converted eight of them into mining permits. These permits are being managed by my partners and I am not benefiting from them.
5. Many persons have been visiting and calling me for permission to carry out mining operations and to rear cattle on the permits.
I wish to state that presently, except those permits which are being managed by my partners, I do not own any prospecting permit. Even though the permits are not being paid for by me, the system used by the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission would probably reflect that the permits are still in my name. I am sorry for the inconvenience caused to the many persons, including Mr. Michael Jones, who have been visiting and calling me for permission to carry out mining operations and to rear cattle on the permits. I should be grateful for this letter to be given the same prominence (front page) in your newspaper of Sunday, March 27, 2016, as the article of March 13, 2016
Sherlock Isaacs
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