The M
inistry of Natural Resources (MNR) as it is known was established on December 17, 2011 as the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (MNRE) with a primary focus of harmonizing policy and management in the Natural resources-based sectors. However, following the appointment of the new Government in May 2015, the institutional structure of the MNRE changed and it became a Department of Natural Resources and Environment under the purview of the Ministry of Presidency. A second change occurred on January 18, 2016 which saw the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment transformed to into the Ministry of Natural Resources.
IMMEDIATE RELEASE Ministry of Natural Resources responds to defamatory mining lands allegations The Ministry of Natural Resources takes note of reports in circulation to the effect that there is the dispossessing and withholding of mining lands for small miners in favour of Syndicates. The Ministry strives to ensure equal access…
The Minister of Natural Resources Hon. Raphael G.C. Trotman today met with the U.S. Ambassador to the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, H.E. Sarah-Ann Lynch. The Minister and Ambassador discussed a wide range of issues including, Guyana’s development as an oil producing and mining nation, and the constitutional and legal…
