RiffRaff posted:when oil come...all will be well...bear up for now
plant garden and mind some fowl...since when Corentyne people need Govt fuh survive
Well said but our Berbicians are now used to "American lifestyle" They forgot how to plant a garden.
On a serious note, Sugar was doomed after the European preferential markets and prices ended. This is not a PPP or PNC problem, it is an economic problem.
First, the AFC and PNC including Granger lied when they told voters that sugar was too important to let it die. They tired to score political points which will come back to haunt them.
Raj Singh since (appointed by the PPP) to save the industry was a clown who did not have an ounce of brain to tackle the emerging problem with the decline of sugar and implementing a plan to diversify or privatize the industry.
The PNC did not handle this professionally either and this will be their downfall. PPP will pounce on this to bring back dissatisfied voters to home base.
No one can underestimate the devastating impact of the closing of the sugar estates in Guyana and as usual, the AFC/PNC are handling this like a bunch of clowns by not implementing a retraining of workers or at least appearing to do so. No financial assistance package to absorb some of the impact on workers have not been announced either.
If the next elections free and fair, the PPP will win with one of it's biggest victory but the sugar problem will not go away and will come back 360 to bite them in the rear. There has to be an impartial and non political resolution to this matter and no party is willing to deal with this mad elephant disease.
Sugar workers (mainly Indos) are tough and will find means to nearly survive but the PNC is creating a monster that might come back to haunt them. Giving sugar workers this type of news at Christmas is inhumane and unjust, could they not wait until the new year ?
Sugar has always been a part of Caribbean politics from slavery to emancipation and the closing of the Sugar Industry might start another revolution and possibly revolt. Fasten your seatbelts.