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The worrying state of the Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development has caused government to intervene with $20M (US$100,Cheap China Jerseys,000) to assist the centre in covering certain operational expenses.Minister of State, Joseph Harmon told members of the media on Wednesday at his press conference that Cabinet was briefed on the “very sorry situation” at the centre and was advised that it was unable to even take care of payments for staff.He said that Cabinet, upon representation made by the Minister of Governance and the Minister responsible for protection of the national patrimony, Raphael Trotman, approved the aforementioned amount of funding.It is expected to cover works up to the period ending September 2015.Harmon noted that the state of the centre has caused Cabinet to also approve the appointment of a review committee comprising Trotman as the Chairperson, Major General Joseph Singh and Clayton Hall from the Ministry of the Presidency, the Centre’s Chief Executive Officer,Cheap Authentic Jerseys, Dane Gobin, and representatives from the University of Guyana and the Ministry of Tourism among others.Harmon outlined that the purpose of the committee will be to review the operations of the Centre and to recommend a way forward for its improvement.The Minister of State said that the committee has been given clear instructions that it will have to commence work immediately so that decisions can be made in that regard.Harmon noted that while the high profile international board was expected to be raising funds for the Centre to avoid this situation in the first place, he said that the Chairman of the board Dr. Rajendra Pachauri has not been as active as they expected him to be.He noted that Dr. Pachauri is facing some legal challenges in India and seems to have been focused on dealing with those legal matters.He said, too, that Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma had made it clear during his recent visit, that the Commonwealth would not be able to fund anymore of the work of the Iwokrama Centre.“So we have a situation where we have limited funding for the project…a situation where the inflows for the project have been reduced significantly,Cheap NFL Jerseys Authentic, and therefore this is the reason why we have to review the board itself,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, and the work that is done there,Cheap Nike Huarache Shoes, so that we can actually look at some new models and how best we can utilize the pristine rainforest which is a reserve not only for Guyana, but for the rest of the world,” Harmon articulated.He said that the Government will definitely be looking at aggressively marketing the rainforest reserve as a tourist destination.According to the Centre’s website,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, the Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development is an international not-for-profit organisation, governed by an International Board of Trustees and managed by a professional team of around seventy permanent staff in Georgetown and at the Iwokrama River Lodge and Research Centre at Kurupukari. The IIC’s Patron is the Prince of Wales.The Iwokrama International Centre was established in 1996 under a joint mandate from the Government of Guyana and the Commonwealth Secretariat to manage the Iwokrama forest, a unique reserve of 371,000 hectares of rainforest, “in a manner that will lead to lasting ecological, economic and social benefits to the people of Guyana and to the world in general”.The Iwokrama forest and its research centre are said to be unique, providing a dedicated site in which to test the concept of a truly sustainable forest – where conservation, environmental balance and economic use can be mutually reinforcing.