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1 results foundAuthor: Partnership Africa Canada Title: Triple Jeopardy: Triplicate Forms and Triple Borders: Controlling Diamond Exports from Guyana Summary: South America's second oldest diamond producer, Guyana has year after year been quietly producing tens and often hundreds of thousands of small, clear, high-quality diamonds for most of the 20th century. Guyana signed on to the Kimberley Process on December 13, 2002, putting in place a system designed to ensure that the diamonds exported from Guyana are all legally produced and declared in Guyana. The country has a number of natural advantages that have helped this effort. Guyana is relatively small by South American standards, with transportation routes and administrative capacity all centred on the capital, Georgetown. Mining has historically been, and remains one of the country's key industries, with the result that the Guyana government takes mining regulation seriously. The government agency in charge of mining, the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) is an autonomous public corporation, able to raise its own funds, hire its own staff and design and implement its own regulatory regimes. An institutional descendent of the old Geological Survey of British Guiana, the GGMC has inherited and preserved many of the better aspects of the British civil service tradition. The current GGMC Commissioner, Brindley H. Robeson Benn, appears to be an able and effective administrator, determined to bring Guyana's diamond fields under his control. In this effort he has the backing of Guyana's Prime Minister, Samuel Hinds. Details: Ottawa: Partnership Africa Canada, 2006. Source: Internet Resource: Occasional paper (Diamonds and Human Security Project), no. 14., 2006: Accessed August 7, 2017 at: http://dspace.africaportal.org/jspui/bitstream/123456789/26088/1/Triple%20Jeopardy%20-%20Triplicate%20Forms%20and%20Triple%20Borders%20-%20Controlling%20Diamond%20Exports%20from%20Guyana.pdf?1 Year: 2006 Country: Guyana URL: http://dspace.africaportal.org/jspui/bitstream/123456789/26088/1/Triple%20Jeopardy%20-%20Triplicate%20Forms%20and%20Triple%20Borders%20-%20Controlling%20Diamond%20Exports%20from%20Guyana.pdf?1 Shelf Number: 146750 Keywords: Blood DiamondsDiamond MiningDiamond SmugglingDiamondsPrecious Minerals |