World Banks said "The sugar industry continues to be an important contributor to economic growth. In addition to the sector’s key role in generating exports, it is also a major source of rural employment. In 1999, GUYSUCO’s production reached
321,000 tons, the highest level in over two decades. Gains were achieved in both factory and field performance."

That was 1999.  Who turned up as President in 1999.

Read the news today.

Sugar production increased by 16,000 tonnes in 2011

…Albion produces more than Skeldon

Several technical problems continued to plague the sugar sector in 2011. However, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) was able to reap an increase of 16,000 tonnes in comparison with the previous year.

It produced more than 237,000 tonnes of sugar last year recording a slight increase over 221,000 tonnes in 2010.

PPP reality:

1999 before Jagdeo  - sugar production 321,000 tons

2011 at the end of Jagdeo  - sugar production  221,000 tons.

This Presidency knock off a clean 100,000 tons in production.

Not me Mahen say this, the World Bank and Ashni Singh seh suh!

Tell dem MAHEN, TELL DEM!!!

I presume Prashad and Yugi can't touch this.

Question?

Who bruk up Guysuco?

Bling them!

Listen here.  Churchill may have a personal battle going on with the likes of Raj Singh,Totaram, Manniram, Jagdeo and Ramotar.  Ask your self this question do you think Churchill care about sugar production falling.

This is not about Churchill, this is not about me.  This is about the sugar workers who broke their backs for JAGAN and today what do they get for all that struggle?

5%!

Churchill why are you always attacking Raj Singh,Totaram, Manniram, Jagdeo and Ramotar?

Do you think that you Churchill who is serving the white man now in the white man's country is superior to those guys? 

Maybe this is about Joey Jagan that sold out the Jagan ideals by hooking up with Ramtar but when they did not offer him the Tourism Ministry, he cry like a Baby.

Mama Janet is not around for him to cry on her shoulders.

He must understand the PPP is not Jagan party anymore, it is Bharat Party now.

So after all these year you still angry with Joey because he sided with Raj ?

I do care about sugar production falling a I am from a family of sugar workers dating back to 1848 at Albion....I have many relatives who still work in the industry and know of the challenges they face inspite of their loyal support for the PPP since 1953.....I can confidently say that Ramouthar and Jagdeo did nothing for the workers....if fact Ramouthar sat on the GUYSUCO board for 19 plus years and never raised his voice to support any measure to bring relief to the plight of the sugar workers.....

As far as Raj Singh, Totoram and Manniram are concerned they are a bunch of PNC moles who were planted into the PPP overseas support structure to position themselves to plunder the wealth of the people.....Jagdeo in many ways was no different as he worked with the PNC, directly under Hoyte before 1992.....

You got big mouth here.  Why you don't open your big mouth when Joey or Ramoutar is around?

Like Joey will slap Uncle Churchill?

And he want to be President?  Look gwan suh and roll in front of GPL.

When Joey or Ramoutar around you don't hear a single sound coming out of Churchill mouth.   

I am self employed and does not " serve any white man ".....the last time I check this was not a " white man's " country.....it belongs to all who work honestly to support their families and those too lazy to work......

But yes I am superior to the Jagdeo/Ramouthar clique as I am not involved in the economic enslavement of my people.... 

Prashad if you have nothing intelligent to add

to this thread I suggest that you SHUT UP !

How come you don't tell Joey and Ramotar shut up when they speaking? 

Churchill I  hope you don't report me to your leader Mr Granger.

Churchill I am sorry to hear that you are stuck in the cold.  Hey if it was up to me I would have given you a job on the sunny sugar plantations of Guyana.

Prashad......which Joey are you refering to.....the one that said all these nice things about "De Duck"

‘Wrong to believe the empty promises of the PPP leaders’

Dear Editor,

The letter in SN on November 8 from a Berbice resident concerning GPL and the continuing black-outs in Berbice-Corentyne is but one of the examples of mismanagement by this government in relation to the people of Berbice (‘Proud of Berbicians standing up to GPL).

During the election campaign last year, I was literally confined to Berbice by the dictates of Robert Persaud, and therefore became quite acquainted with the problems facing the people of that region. By the way, Editor, the money spent on the political campaign in the Berbice region would, I am sure, amount to more than was put out to help the farmers of Berbice during Mr Persaud’s tenure as the Minister of Agriculture. (Were subsidies  ever granted to the Berbice farmers so that they could ‘grow more food,‘ one of his slogans while he was in office?) Remember, Editor, that slogans and taxpayers‘ money spent on ‘growing more food,’ have still resulted in increasing food costs for the people of Berbice and the rest of Guyana. If we had grown more food then food prices, especially for the basics, would have gone down for Berbicans.

But yet Mr Persaud was rewarded with a bigger ministry after spending over $200 million on a failed campaign and failing miserably as Minister of Agriculture.

Editor, since the last elections, I have been back to Berbice quite a few times to assess for myself what has been done for the residents there since Mr Ramotar became President last year, and I have found out for myself, that, as the writer of  November 8 stated, nothing much has been done, especially in tackling job creation and investment initiatives so critical for growth and development.

The foul-ups of GPL and the electricity sector should be blamed squarely on Mr Sam Hinds, and as a PPP/C candidate I have repeatedly called for his removal, not only from the electricity sector but from the PM position he has held for the last 21 years. Mr Ramotar placed Dr Ramsammy as Minister of Agriculture and to this day, even though Dr Ramsammy and myself talked about the outfall trench at Skeldon and the need to clean it out to the Corentyne River so as to avoid flooding in the areas around, nothing much has been done and the residents will still face flooding and loss of income.

In the year of Minister Ramsammy’s tenure, the sugar workers are really worse off as food prices go up along with everything else, and the strikes at Albion and elsewhere tell their own story.

At Port Mourant, President Cheddi’s birthplace and the home of one of Guyana and the world’s greatest cricketers, Rohan Kanhai, the playground is a disgrace and the internal streets are in bad disrepair, not to mention the irrigation system which is all clogged up.

These observations about conditions are replicated everywhere in Berbice, and Messrs Ramsammy, Neil Kumar and others responsible should be moved as soon as possible from their jobs. Imagine, Editor, Jagan and Kanhai played cricket on that ground in Port Mourant and these people would not even fix it for the youths there, although Cheddi Jagan is re-incarnated in every election cycle by the present PPP leadership for votes they can’t get without calling his name.

At Babu John, where President Cheddi’s memorial is located, garbage and filth surround that sacred ground but no one cares  really – only at election time and when they have a service to ‘remember’ Jagan, while forgetting the most important things he fought against, like corruption, squandermania and not attending fully to the people‘s needs.

Editor, taking the Berbicans’ votes for granted is the mantra of the present PPP leadership when they sit in Freedom House calculating votes at election time.

Meanwhile continuing disregard for the problems facing the residents there cause them to keep multiplying; the 63-64 beach area is a disgrace, the black-outs and irrigation problems are nightmares by themselves, the crime situation is out of hand and getting no better, investment to create good jobs and job training is seriously lacking with no real prospects in sight, and basic amenities like licensing (drivers) and passport offices are sorely lacking.

These people in Freedom House obviously didn’t get the message from Berbicans during the last election cycle because I saw, with my own eyes, PPP organizers busing people in to even small meetings because there were slender turn-outs as people obviously were not that much interested. At some meetings, citizens told me that when President Cheddi was alive hundreds would turn out at these small street-corner meetings, whereas in that campaign, sometimes I counted less than a hundred even in places like Albion, and even that was after the buses brought in 40-50 persons .

Editor, while Berbice suffers on, Mr Ramotar keeps shuffling his associates around, like the one recalled from Brazil and given a new placing.

Kellawan Lall is a failure in governance, if I ever saw one.  Mr Ramotar recycles the faithful ‘comrades‘ round and round on the government merry-go-round, increasing the bureauracy and the huge payroll the citizens have to bankroll, while Mr Ashni Singh, the Finance Minister, spends $475 million each and every day of the year, even with the budget cuts by the opposition. The Berbicans should wonder how this government could spend US$20 million on the Marriot Hotel and then refuse to fix the electricity mess in Berbice, not to mention the village roads, the irrigation and the playfields, and not spend money on job creation and training – and the list could go on and on.

I campaigned for the PPP in the last election, but after looking hard at what’s happening on the ground in Berbice since that election, I can say to Berbicans, please forgive me as I was wrong to believe the empty promises of the present leaders of the PPP.

Yours faithfully, Cheddi (Joey) Jagan (Jr)

I like Joey if it were up to me he would have been leader of the PPP and country.  He is a very progressive leader.

What are you smoking again?

Churchill will support Granger. I support Joey.

Joey "the weed" Jagan - President of Guyana.  and who would be his adviser again - Pablo Escobar?

And his right hand will be Christopher 'Dudus' Coke and his left hand Roger the Preacher Man Khan?

What you high on again Prashad?

Prasad tell abee what joey think about De Duck and Jagabat???

Moses go mek wan fair and good Presi fuh Guyana. We na want anymore bamboo weddin and Hindu gyal sucide. We na want rabbin of de poor people money. We na want NIS fuh turn SIN. We na want de poor people pension turn smoke but Jagdoe get he 3 mill dalla a month. Enough tiefin.

Gal, wah yu na tek up wid Jagdeo an yu can share in he 3 mill? Wah yu so stupid? Stap complainin. 

Ramotar may not have deserved the presidency but who said Moses was the fittest and most favorable one in the PPP???  If an election was held to determine who the party's presidential candidate should have been Ralph Ramkarran might have been the winner. Ralph is not devoid of integrity nor the proper qualifications so important for higher office. I suspect the PPP will hold elections prior the next general elections to resolve this crisis and Moses won't stand a ghost of a chance of winning the nomination.

too late and too late is the cry

Is this a tacit admission that Churchill's preceding post is correct and so what is being asked of Churchill is to open he big mouth and tell these truths when the President and the Dentist are around?

Me nah complain. Me a state de facts. You like SIN or NIS?

If Moses is  neem tree, what is your boy from Pradoville and your big belly man from Main Street?

Pot calling kettle black.  

This post from Old boy reveals deep desperation in the PPP camp.  They like fish out of water as they are dragged to the decision of putting ROHEE in the new Ministry of Economic Development.

They have no choice ROHEE HAS TO GO from Home Affairs.  It is not an ask; it is an order!

IMF STAFF Paper says:

Downside risks to Guyana's economic future include those linked to
fiscal pressures arising from lagging productivity in Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO), the need to strengthen the finances of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), and a possible fall off in aid commitments.

Source IMF Staff Paper.

Again Guysuco is a great organisation just badly managed.  The workers are dedicated just badly led by the Political Elite.

Who pays Romel Roopnarine - Guysuco?

What does he do for a day job - Indian Arrival Committee, PPP propaganda, OP propaganda, Freedom House Propaganda.

Isn't this a waste of good Guysuco money?

More ganda than ganda egg!

all these off the taxpayers back,what a country no wonder skeltonman is not going back,he might be a racist but he is not dumb

This old man conscience gone his rabbit hole and hide.

where is old man, no comments to these facts?

PPP reality:

1999 before Jagdeo  - sugar production 321,000 tons

2011 at the end of Jagdeo  - sugar production  221,000 tons.

This Presidency knock off a clean 100,000 tons in production.

Not me Mahen say this, the World Bank and Ashni Singh seh suh!

Moses good speech in Parlaiment yesterday.  Mature, respectful as the Niel Kumars and Irfatt the tief Ali Baba pee their pants.

That one Leslar RumSUMpy, nearly blow a valve when Ranjattan lash them with facts.