GWI gets $80M towards water treatment plant in Port Kaituma

A Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment official (left) hands over four drums of fuel to PGC chairman Shawn James. (GINA photo)

The Ministry of Natural Resourc-es and the Environment will provide $80 million towards a water treatment plant in Port Kaituma, Region One, in light of pollution of the main water source, the creek, as a result of mining, the Government Information Agency reported yesterday.

Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment Robert Persaud who was in the community yesterday for an interactive session with miners,