The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) is going to be revamped to reflect the greater stature of the sector in the economy and it will push mining but at the same time ensure that it is done sustainably and without any corruption.
“Hopefully within a matter of months we’ll be able to put that structure in place within the agency,” President Bharrat Jagdeo said at a press conference at State House yesterday. Reporters quizzed him on the recent furore surrounding allegations of corruption within the agency.
Jagdeo, addressing the annual officers’ conference of the Guyana Defence Force on January 25, had said that there is need for some of them in the state agencies and he singled out