I wish to refer to Janette Bulkan’s letter in the Stabroek News in its issue of Saturday May 11, 2013 under the caption, “It is time the Natural Resources Sector Committee of Parliament asked serious questions of the Ministry of Natural Resources, the GFC and Bai Shan Lin.”
Permit me to state the following:
1. In my letter to the Guyana Chronicle (Saturday May 11, 2013), I said that Janette Bulkan “in her engrossed anti-government agenda will continue to formulate unqualified generalisations against the management of Guyana’s

forestry sector.” This is exactly what she has done and is now calling for the Natural Resources Sectoral Committee of Parliament to “ask serious questions of the Ministry of Natural Resources, the GFC and Bai Shan Lin.” This clearly shows that Bulkan in her political agenda is also engaged in personal axe-grinding against the management of Guyana’s forestry sector since if she was not she would have responded positively to the Commissioner of Forests, Mr. James Singh’s invitation “To visit the GFC’s Head Office and peruse relevant documents” (Chronicle, Thursday May 8, 2013) for the information she is seeking. In the pursuit of her acute self interest which has been transformed into an anti-government agenda, Bulkan is now seeking the intervention of Parliament which she knows is a one-seat dictatorship where a close relative of hers is included in this dictatorship. In other words, Bulkan is begging the parliamentary Opposition to assist with her self-interest and personal axe-grinding agenda against the Guyana Forestry Commission. My advice to the Natural Resources Sectoral Committee of  Parliament is therefore to let Bulkan accept the Commissioner of Forests invitation to visit the GFC’s Head Office to access the information she needs.
2. But Bulkan is her response to the Commissioner of Forest referred to her questions about Bai Shan Lin (SN Sat. May 11, 2013) quite clearly exposed the limitations of her “Forest Expertise” as a result of her flawed interpretation of the reply. This is why Bulkan does not want to take up the Commissioner of Forest invitation, since if she does, her ignorance about Guyana’s forestry maters will be confirmed.
3. The Government of Guyana and its agency, the GFC, are seriously committed towards the EUFLGT VPA and have already started to move the process forward. The claim by Bulkan therefore, that if the European Union voluntary partnership agreement (EU VPA) is to be acquired, a freer flow of information will have to become a habit by Government agencies is nothing but pure balderdash, since both the Government of Guyana and the GFC are fully aware about the requirements for having an EU VPA. In other words, Bulkan’s ‘Guidance” on Guyana is EUFLEGT process is not needed.