Tag: Environmental Protection Agency

EPA to assess mining in Demerara River

EPA to assess mining in Demerara River

- August 8, 2018

─ Minister Trotman halts dragger operations in river DPI, Guyana, Wednesday, August 8, 2018 Minister of Natural Resources, Raphael Trotman, ... Read More

Local fishermen to get oil spill response training – ExxonMobil

Local fishermen to get oil spill response training – ExxonMobil

- July 17, 2018

DPI, GUYANA, Tuesday, July 17, 2018 Local fishermen could soon be exposed to some “hands-on training” in oil spill response, ... Read More

National conversations on single-use plastics aim to curb use locally

National conversations on single-use plastics aim to curb use locally

- July 6, 2018

  EPA Director calls on Guyanese to help eliminate plastic pollution DPI, Guyana, Friday, July 6, 2018 As Government moves ... Read More

Region Two youths in environmental workshop

Region Two youths in environmental workshop

- June 22, 2018

DPI, Guyana, Friday, June 22, 2018 Forty youths from Mainstay and Whyaka, Capoey, Lima Sands and Tapakuma in Region Two ... Read More

National conversation on proposed ban on single-use plastics begins

National conversation on proposed ban on single-use plastics begins

- June 5, 2018

DPI, GUYANA, Tuesday, June 5, 2018 Plastic shopping bags and other single-use plastics are to be phased out starting in ... Read More

President to make presentation at Global Environment Facility Assembly Meeting in Vietnam  

President to make presentation at Global Environment Facility Assembly Meeting in Vietnam  

- May 30, 2018

  Guyana participating at Second Iwokrama Science Committee Meeting, Caribbean Cyber Security and Cyber Drill Training Programme, other forums DPI, ... Read More

EPA outsources consultancy firm to conduct Liza Phase 2 EIA

EPA outsources consultancy firm to conduct Liza Phase 2 EIA

- May 11, 2018

DPI, GUYANA, Friday, May 11, 2018 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has contracted an international consultancy service to assist in ... Read More

50 trained in radiation use and management

50 trained in radiation use and management

- May 2, 2018

DPI, GUYANA, Wednesday, May 2, 2018 Fifty participants from the public and private sectors from nine regions across Guyana are ... Read More

EPA, MOPH host radiation workshop for national stakeholders

EPA, MOPH host radiation workshop for national stakeholders

- April 16, 2018

DPI, GUYANA, Monday, April 16, 2018 National stakeholders will benefit from the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) national five-day training ... Read More

GRDB encourages Mill Licensing for 2018

GRDB encourages Mill Licensing for 2018

- April 11, 2018

DPI, GUYANA, Wednesday, April 11, 2018 The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) is encouraging more millers to become licensed for ... Read More