Years after a decision was taken to relocate the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission’s offices (GGMC) to the controversial building at High and Princes streets in Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, rehabilitation has commenced in preparation for this, Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat has confirmed.
Stabroek News understands that the GGMC started work on retrofitting the building in the latter half of 2022. There was no announcement and the relevant authorities are tightlipped on the sum to be spent on the remedial work.
Bharrat, while responding to questions from this newspaper on the sidelines of the International Energy Conference last week, said there was a commitment to follow through with the 2012 PPP/C government cabinet’s decision. He noted that the agency had outgrown its office space at Brickdam, Georgetown, and had been forced to rent properties around the city to house departments of the minerals extracting regulatory body.