Ministry of Natural Resources and the Guyana Forestry Commission to partner with local saw millers and hardware stores to promote lesser used wood species.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Honourable Raphael G.C. Trotman M.P., Minister of Natural Resources, today August 4, 2017 met with a number of local hardware store and lumber yard representatives to discuss options to mitigate the high local demand for foreign pine wood, especially from the United States. This meeting was part…
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.