What was advertised as a consultative forum designed to engage stakeholders on the decision by government to impose a ban on the use of polystyrene containers and packaging from June 2014 turned out to be an animated exchange on several more issues amongst different interest groups which, by the end of the discourse, raised as many questions as it answered.
The modest group that gathered at the Roraima Duke Lodge on Monday to hear from Natural Resources Minister Robert Persaud and Acting Tourism and Industry Minister Irfaan Ali included health advocates holding forth on the poisonous properties of Styrofoam, environmental buffs justifiably
