Opinion

Wardens in the gold mining sector

The Ministry of Natural Resources has announced that it will be assigning wardens to mining areas in order to try to rein in the deeply worrying levels of the various types of lawlessness that obtain in the gold-mining regions of Guyana.

Domestic security threat?

On Friday afternoon, the government issued a terse press release stating that it had received credible information related to a “potential domestic security threat” and that this coupled with increased criminal activity had resulted in the decision to institute security measures in targeted areas to be conducted by the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF).

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