Natural Resources Ministry to launch inquiry into latest mining pit death

Keon Wilson

Expressing concern over the persistence of unsafe practices carried out by mining firms, the Ministry of Natural Resources announced that it would launched a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the latest mining death.

Keon Wilson of 61 Ann’s Grove Housing Scheme, East Coast Demerara died on Saturday in a mining incident at Rock Creek, Puruni, Region Seven (Cuyuni/Mazaruni).

Stabroek News was told that the 33-year-old father