Its this simple. Rose Hall had production costs of 60c (US) and world prices are 15c. With the end of the EU guaranteed access and guaranteed prices the whole environment for sugar ended.
These are old time communists who don't understand how economies work and that talking about an era where there were guaranteed prices and markets TO PROTECT BOOKERS A UK COMPANY is irrelevant!
In a land where government services are inadequate and infrastructure is weak where is the money to come from. The gov't's focus ought to be on positioning the labor force ro compete for 21st century jobs and to provide incentives for these jobs to exist.
Sugar is a 19th century job and the fact that these kindly folks have to go way back then to justify its existence is evidence. Should we also suggest that jobs driving dray carts also be preserved!
The PPP had 23 years to transform sugar and elected not to do so. They left a company so moribund that it struggled to meet payroll! Labor costs EXCEEDED Guysuco's revenues!
Since the end of preferential access the PPP should have been working with DDL to transform the industry into one which provided molasses and other materials for local and CARICOM markets, and released excess labor into other forms of agriculture.
The PPP did NOT do so and so now we have this problem!