Natural Resources and the Environment Minister Robert Persaud yesterday met with representatives of the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) and the Forest Producers Association (FPA) yesterday to ensure operations continue at logging and mining camps in the interior, which have been almost cut off as a result of the continuing protest in Linden, in Region 10.
Transportation of fuel and food into mining camps are currently at a standstill in light of the protests and the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported yesterday that the ministry is implementing “alternative mechanisms” to ensure that produce enters mining camps at a low cost. It also said that the ministry is developing alternative routes and establishing a hotline number so that affected forestry and mining operators can make contact with it.
President of the GMSA, Mohindra Chand, updated the Minister on the difficulty of getting produce taken into the backdams. “We have been getting lot of calls from businesses as they are