Following a concerted effort by the AFC to force the PPP regime to treta canecutters with respect and dignity, the sugar producer promised faithfully to pay an estimated GUY$500 million Annual Production Incentive by mid-March and probe unrest at Blairmont in moves aimed at getting workers to call off strikes. Authorities have appealed to workers at Blairmont, now on a nine-day old strike, to return to work immediately and pave the way for a Commission of Inquiry by the Ministry of Labour into their grievances about the Estate Manager and Agriculture Manager there.
This is the first time under successive PPP tenures that the regime has caved in to the demands of the canecutters that money earmarked for them should be paid out instead of being diverted to illegal activities within the regime. Contrary to propaganda dished out by the GOG and its doom and gloom merchants that the AFC only has its own interest at heart, the people of Guyana have now been able to witness how a party with just 7 members in parliament can achieve so much in so little time.
With this humanitarian act the AFC has demonstrated that an overall AFC majority in government would be able to put Guyana on the right path of financial independence and security. Many canecutters expressed their gratitude to the AFC and some were even heard to whisper that they wished they had voted for the AFC at the last election.
This is the first time under successive PPP tenures that the regime has caved in to the demands of the canecutters that money earmarked for them should be paid out instead of being diverted to illegal activities within the regime. Contrary to propaganda dished out by the GOG and its doom and gloom merchants that the AFC only has its own interest at heart, the people of Guyana have now been able to witness how a party with just 7 members in parliament can achieve so much in so little time.
With this humanitarian act the AFC has demonstrated that an overall AFC majority in government would be able to put Guyana on the right path of financial independence and security. Many canecutters expressed their gratitude to the AFC and some were even heard to whisper that they wished they had voted for the AFC at the last election.
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