Key agencies tasked with the protection of mangroves continue to remain silent on the recent destruction of a vast amount of the natural sea defence by TriStar Incorporated, which is currently constructing a shore base storage facility at Versailles/Malgre Tout, West Bank Demerara.
It has been more than a week since the destruction was reported by this newspaper and civil society criticising the act, but all of the agencies which include the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI), which is responsible for the mangrove restoration project have chosen to remain mum on the issue.
