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.
Today, August 3, 2017, Minister of Natural Resources Hon. Raphael Trotman handed over a brand new guitar to Ms. Kenya Miggins of Kwakwani, Region 10 in response to a humble request made by her when she submitted a note along with her entry for the Ministry’s Petroleum Commission of Guyana…
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – An investigation has been launched into the death of a miner following a mining accident on Monday July 31, 2017 at Takatu, on the left bank of the Puruni River in Mining District 3, Region No. 7 (Cuyuni-Mazaruni) in which a tree fell and fatally injured the…
