Plans for the direction of the mining and forestry sectors are likely to be high on the agenda when Minister of Natural Resources Robert Persaud meets stakeholders in the sectors next Monday.
Stabroek Business has been unable to secure full details of the agenda for what will be the first major engagement between the only new ministry to be created by the Ramotar administration and interest groups in the natural resources sub-sector. Mining sources have told this newspaper that a key likely item on the agenda could be the articulation of government’s perspective on the coexistence between the mining and forestry sectors, on the one hand, and the country’s new Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) to which it committed itself under the Jagdeo administration.
Next Monday’s meeting is likely to be of particular interest to the mining sector as small miners had clashed with the