By Zena Henry Minister of Natural Resource and the Environment Robert Persaud noted via press conference yesterday that the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has space issues and the Ministry is seeking to put temporary measures in place.He told media operatives that in relation to accommodation, staffers of the mining agency face great inconvenience,Cheap Jerseys, especially when field workers return from the interior and are based at the agency’sThe former Co-op Complex building.head office at Brickdam.Minister Persaud asserted that moves are being made to have the GGMC purchase the building at High and Princes Streets,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, completed and expanded, while efforts to make the property convenient and developed are also underway. He further noted that at the board level, interim arrangements are being discussed to deal with the agency’s issues in relation to space.In terms of reports that the GGMC is seeking to rent the former Co-op Complex Building at Regent and Light Streets, the Minister said that based on his queries with the GGMC Chairman and the agency’s Commissioner, representatives from the Commission were making “inquires”.He indicated that those inquires were however part of a wider search for space,NFL Jerseys Outlet, since the agency has new equipment coming in and is thus looking to locate those within the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission.The Natural Resource Ministry in a press release claimed that it was untrue that the GGMC was seeking to rent the Regent Street building. Kaieteur News broke the news on Monday that the agency had secured the building at a rental cost of $1M per month.It was for this very issue of space congestion that the GGMC sought to rent the building at Regent and Light Streets. The move they said had to be made since the Natural Resource Ministry had confiscated the newly constructed three-storey building located at the agency’s Brickdam headquarters. The Ministry, they said,Wholesale Jerseys Cheap, has 25 staffers in the building, despite the agency’s longstanding problem with space. GGMC has 300-plus staffers. But now that the field staff of some 125 persons is growing, the sources said seeking extra space is absolutely necessary.A section being completed for GGMC’s rental.The joint press release highlighted the Minister’s disappointment that the article on Monday was carried “without clarification”, but when this publication visited the Regent Street building yesterday, works were already in progress to get the building ready as plans to move in are scheduled for next week. Workers were seen painting,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, while electricians wired the location.Kaieteur News understands that GGMC would be occupying the entire upper flat of the Regent Street building, but further reports from sources said that plans to occupy the location have been put on hold by request of the Natural Resources Ministry.? This publication was told that at the time the decision was made,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, the Ministry was unaware of the move since the decision was being taken at an agency level which according to sources, does not demand the consent of the Minister; reiterating GGMC’s independence under the law. The source continued that the Ministry only became aware of the move subsequent to this newspaper’s Monday publication.GGMC is however gearing towards the costly $600M completion tab of the High and Princes Streets building which is moving along extremely slow. The agency might be moving over to that building if work concludes by early next year, Kaieteur News understands.Staffers are however peeved over the possible decentralisation of the agency since they claim that the occupancy of the GGMC’S newly constructed building would have aided immensely with the ongoing space problem. While Minister Persaud said that interim measures were being looked at to deal with the matter, he did not elaborate.