Minister of Natural Resources and Co-chair of the Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) of the Guyana Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, Raphael Trotman says the government has started creating new laws and enforcing current ones to run alongside the initiative but it is still not prepared to release the contract which had been clinched with ExxonMobil in 1999.
Speaking last week at the fifth public outreach, which is aimed at providing information to the public in order to have a meaningful conversation, Trotman said, “Alongside this initiative we have started the process of reforms, adding new laws where none existed and of course enforcing laws that existed.”