Press Release – Ensuring improved communities
– Natural Resources Minister meets with Kwakwani During a recent visit to the mining province of Region 10, Minister of Natural Resources, Hon. Vickram Bharrat, inspected a number of forestry stations, including the Kwakwani Forestry Station, attached to the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC). Minister Bharrat was accompanied by Minister of…
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.
