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GAWU is predicting low production figure for first crop

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Dear Editor,

I couldn’t believe what I was reading when I got the Combat newspapers in my inbox.  For the record, the Combat is printed by the GAWU, the largest workers’ union in Guyana.  In the Combat, it is clearly stated that as at the week ending March 25, 2017, GuySuCo produced 20,037 tonnes of sugar from a target of 74,172 (or 27%).  I was advised only six weeks was left before the 2017 first crop terminates. As expected Skeldon produced zero tonnes to date because it was prematurely shuttered in this 2017 first crop under the pretext of another lame excuse from Mr Hanoman and Friends.  But what this exposed is that there was no proper project planning at that estate in the second crop of 2016. This is shocking because even in the hard days in the 1980s, GuySuCo always prepped its factories and machinery at the end of the previous year’s second crop in preparation for the next first crop.  So how come the management of Skeldon did not know they had a problem on the co-generation plant before the first crop started?

I immediately called my contact in GuySuCo to find out the prospect for the next six weeks, and when I thought that GAWU was being pessimistic, the GuySuCo insider dropped an even bigger bombshell on the table.  I was advised that the corporation is not expecting to produce more than 45,000 tonnes for the 2017 first crop (60% performance).  This will result in an immediate loss to the nation of some US$16 million in real foreign currency inflow.

So how can the Minister tell me and the rest of the public that there is enough foreign currency in the system for the first half of 2017?  I can now concur with my dear friend Ramon Gaskin who on a ‘Plain Talk’ programme in March 2017 with Chris Ram said that Guyana will be importing sugar for domestic consumption in under two years’ time.  At this rate, his prediction will come true before its due date.

Yours faithfully,

Sase Singh

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Where did you get this U$16million currency inflow from? Who would the buyer of that sugar be, and what price is he offering per tonne?
Also, how much will is cost in U$ to actually produce that sugar? I bet you that it is a lot more than U$16million.

 

Mr.T

The jackasses in power are oblivious to the country's pain as they already got their 50% raises and the support of the Blacks and gullible Indians nation wide.  They have no plan and are waiting for oil. Meanwhile the pNC apologists on this forum continue their unwavering support of the Granger administration.

FM

You have to be a complete dumb if you don't realize by now that the anti-koolie squad is out to destroy the economic and intellectual power of koolie in Guyana.

Prashad
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Drugb posted:

The jackasses in power are oblivious to the country's pain as they already got their 50% raises and the support of the Blacks and gullible Indians nation wide.  They have no plan and are waiting for oil. Meanwhile the pNC apologists on this forum continue their unwavering support of the Granger administration.

The AFC/PNC Clowns transformed a booming economy into Dog Shyte in less than two years.

During the campaign, they promised to transform and revive the sugar and rice Industry. Some Indos in the AFC contributed to the destruction of Guyana.

Churchill and others who were instrumental in bringing down the PPP are now silent because the PNC Congress Place will tell them to go to hell and that they no longer need the AFC.

The so called Cummingsburd Accord was the Biggest Con Job in Guyana's political history. Even poster Gil got conned.

How can these AFC Indos who supported the AFC/PNC sleep at night as the entire nation suffers ?

 

FM
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