Environment portfolio to be severed from Ministry of Natural Resources

Environmental matters will soon be removed from under the Ministry of Natural Resources as government believes that not only are the duties of both sectors taxing on Minister Raphael Trotman but they may pose a potential conflict.

“Environment will be removed from Natural Resources, it is not being removed as yet, it will be removed,” Minister of State Joseph Harmon told a post-Cabinet press briefing yesterday.

Further, he added “The extractive sector and the sector that is