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.
Ministry of Natural Resources, September 18, 2018 The Ministry of Natural Resources wishes to express sincere condolences to the relatives of the two miners killed at Mowasi Backdam, Konawaruk, Potaro. Their deaths are as a result of a 20-foot deep pit caving in while they were on a mining concession conducting…
The Ministry of Natural Resources would like to respond to recent comments on the Development Plan for Liza Phase 1 which appear to raise inadvertently or otherwise, the spectre of some sinister motive or corruption in the decision making process. The Ministry of Natural Resources was given the strict responsibility…
