Latest update December 18th, 2024 5:45 AM

Guyana's largest selling daily and New York's most popular weekly

Latest News

This all-fancy, super rich miner is merciless

Mar 05, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
Here is an incident of terrible exploitation of small miners by an all-fancy super rich miner. A small miner paid this all-fancy, richest gold miner in Guyana and perhaps the largest landowner in Guyana (whose identity I am sure all Guyanese know) one million dollars in October 2016 to mine a parcel of land that was rented to him. He spent millions to prospect the land, and spent millions to move his equipment onto the land and then spent millions more to start mining the land. The small miner eventually ‘bore’ some gold and went and paid this all-fancy, super rich landlord the amount of gold they agreed he would pay as rent, he also told the all-fancy super rich landlord the amount of gold he was ‘washing down’.
Before December 2016, this all-fancy super rich man forcibly evicted the small miner from the land with the help of GGMC officers. A group of heavily armed men working for the all-fancy, super rich guy went to the small miner’s camp, forced him to stop his dredge and cut down his box. They then threw him off the land. This is despite the man paying a million dollars up front and then paying the all-fancy super rich man the agreed amount of gold per month.
Small miners normally whisper about these incidents because they are afraid of victimization. We small miners depend on large miners to receive land to work, so we could not speak out before, because the large miners would simply deny our request to work on their lands. Things are beginning to change now because we can now get land to work from the government instead. What actions shall the GGDMA take against this all-fancy rich landlord? Please note I used the term ‘all-fancy’ to indicate that this guy is indeed all-fancy with the way he uses wealth and power, so the term “all-fancy’ is appropriate.
Small Miner

Similar Articles

The Glenn Lall Show | December, 2nd, 2024

Follow on Tik Tok @Glennlall

 

THE BLUNT OF THE DAY

Sports

Clarendon College too good for Dolphin as Annai Sec’ holds Speyside College to 4-all draw

Clarendon College too good for Dolphin as Annai Sec’ holds Speyside...

Dec 18, 2024

-KFC Goodwill Int’l Football Series heats up today Kaieteur News- The Petra Organisation’s fifth Annual KFC International Secondary Schools Goodwill Football Series intensified yesterday with two...
Read More
Glasgow excided for MLS journey with Chicago Fire

Glasgow excided for MLS journey with Chicago Fire

Dec 18, 2024

Matthews slams unbeaten 85 as Windies Women hammer India by nine wickets to level series

Matthews slams unbeaten 85 as Windies Women...

Dec 18, 2024

No room to breathe as five more teams to advance to quarters tomorrow

No room to breathe as five more teams to advance...

Dec 18, 2024

Sammy to be appointed as West Indies Senior Men’s Head Coach for all formats

Sammy to be appointed as West Indies Senior...

Dec 17, 2024

Bangladesh hold nerve to defend 148 and take 1-0 T20I series lead over West Indies

Bangladesh hold nerve to defend 148 and take 1-0...

Dec 17, 2024

Features/Columnists

Publisher’s Note

Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.

Feel free to send us your comments and/or criticisms.
Contact: 624-6456; 225-8452; 225-8458; 225-8463; 225-8465; 225-8473 or 225-8491.
Or by Email: [email protected] / [email protected]

Weekend Cartoon

Bridge Watch

Demerara Harbour Bridge

> Berbice Bridge […]