Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman a week ago used the forum of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry Annual Gala Dinner to tag what he described as “activities of grave disrepute” in the mining sector and to place stakeholders on notice that, going forward, the administration will be taking aim at the slew of irregularities that have persisted in the sector, albeit against a backdrop of official failure, over the years.
Trotman’s announcement bolstered government’s, which made no secret of the intention to rely on sustained growth in gold production to continue to serve as an economic bulwark in the face of immediate uncertainties in the performances of the traditional money-earners.
On Friday evening last, Trotman spelt out some aspects of the downside of what has become the country’s key economic sectors.
