With the recent dismissal of over 4700 sugar workers in Berbice, some families are finding it tough to find the necessary funding to send their children to school.
In what is described as the largest retrenchment by a private or public corporation in recent history, State-owned GuySuCo dismissed thousands of sugar workers from various estates.
The Special Purpose Unit (SPU), set up by the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), has contracted PricewaterhouseCoopers to evaluate the assets of the closed estates at Skeldon, Rose Hall and Enmore before selling them. Thus far, a number of foreign and local companies, including the Demerara Distillers Limited, have expressed their interests in buying the Enmore and Skeldon Estates.
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