Policy Forum Guyana (PFG) is lamenting the poisoning of the major waterways in Guyana by mining and the concomitant reduction of the country’s freshwater resources.
PFG is a network of civic organizations which came into existence in 2015 with the general aim of strengthening electoral, environmental and financial accountability. Membership of the PFG currently comprises some twenty-two organisations covering trade union, indigenous, women, youth, transparency and faith-based organisations active in Guyana.
In a release on Saturday, the Forum referred to the launch of Mining Week at the Umana Yana on Friday hosted by the Ministry of Natural Resources (MoNR) and the Guyana Geology & Mines Commission (GGMC) which it said provided “a reassuring display of their technical capacity to combat wanton destruction of forests and rivers.” It further stated that the demonstration of cutting-edge technology “showed a capacity to account for every tree in the forests and every dredge on the rivers” and commended both agencies on this imaginative outreach to the wider community.
