[Video] Controversial survey permit by minister was first of its kind – Harmon

The main opposition APNU will at the next sitting of the National Assembly on December 19 be putting a number of questions to Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment, Robert Persaud regarding his granting of a mineral survey permit for the south east of the country and over the answers he had given during a parliamentary committee hearing.

Speaking to Stabroek News yesterday, APNU MP Joe Harmon said that though the Minister did not lie to the Committee which met on November 27, he was economical with the truth.

Harmon said too that he was considering strongly causing Parliament’s Sectoral Committee on