IN relation to Bai Shan Lin (BSL), the President of Guyana has spoken. There is “No raping of our forest” by foreign logging company Bai Shan Lin (Chronicle 16 Aug, 2014).

Certainly there is no raping of our forests, despite the vicious attacks on Bai Shan Lin’s logging company by the Kaieteur News in harmony with the useless political Opposition.

The President’s statement on the Bai Shan Lin logging company is absolutely correct and in order, and has shattered or devastated the ugly journalism displayed by KN against the Bai Shan Lin company, currently investing in Guyana’s forest sector with strict adherence to its forest laws.

But KN’s misleading and erroneous information about Bai Shan Lin is mischievously and specially designed to fool or mislead the Guyanese people, since KN is on the side of the unpatriotic and anti-national political Opposition.

But the KN shall fail in its deliberate opposition to foreign investments in the forestry sector of our country under the Donald Ramotar administration. After being exposed lying on Bai Shan Lin in Region 10, the KN flew into Kwebanna, Region 1, where they claim they found “8 loaded Bai Shan Lin trucks hiding in the Region One trail.”

This is another bogus story about the Bai Shan Lin company, since it is a joint venture arrangement with the Kwebanna Wood Products, in keeping with Section 16 of the Forest Act, 2009. So the Bai Shan Lin Forest operations at Kwebanna are legal and lawful.

PETER PERSAUD