Difficulties currently being experienced in the gold-mining industry are the result of the neglect of a section of the sector and the solution lies with a more comprehensive and collaborative approach by the government, A Partner-ship for National Unity (APNU) members have said.
During the party’s weekly press conference yesterday, Opposition and APNU leader David Granger, Natural Resources and the Environment shadow minister Rupert Roopnaraine and Local Government and Regional Development shadow minister Ronald Bulkan all opined that a plan of action was needed to deal with what they deemed the “degenerating” gold mining sector.
According to Bulkan, as one of the major contributors to Guyana’s economy,