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FM
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When  you think it would be the PNC that would kill sugar out of spite, it's the PPP that has done it.

 

Focusing their time more on how to concoct scams to fleece the country, it's the 23 years of neglect, lack of diversification, poor management and poor leadership that the sugar industry is the way it is now.

 

Sugar workers know this, but needs to remember this when they vote on May 11.

 

President Ramotar sat on the Guysuco Board when much of this decline took place.

 

Under the PPP, strikes in the industry did not stop, indicating that the industrial relations climate under the PPP declined.  This is the Party that accuses Moses Nagamootoo of betraying Indians.  So given these facts, who really betrayed the Indians.

 

The PPP is spreading fear that the Coalition will close sugar, when in fact, the PPP's reign has began the process of closing the doors, if things continue as is.

 

The sugar communities are mostly destitute and the PPP failed to design out of crop work for sugar workers. Most sugar workers constitute the "working poor."

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Originally Posted by HM_Redux:
Originally Posted by alena06:

Sugar is a 'dead' industry regardless of who governs. 

Is that Jagdeo and the PPP's official assessment?

 

Did they list themselves as the perpetrator on the homicide report?

Anyone with common sense can conclude that since there is not much demand on the world market for sugar, we need to slowly switch to other things.  OLD WAYS NEED TO STOP OR WE WILL ALWAYS BE LEFT BEHIND.

alena06
Originally Posted by Jay Bharrat:

Govt policy and neglect brought us to where we are.  Guyana was a leading sugar producer in Caricom. Jagdeo's Skeldon factory scam contributed much to the current sate.  It's a sucking machine for state funds that never stops sucking.

Guyana still is the leading sugar producer.  This because Trinidad and St Kitts closed down their industries.  Barbados maintains it as a social program as many Bajans who work in it aren't going to get a job in a hotel or a bank.  Jamaica maintains it only for local consumption, mainly because of its large agro industrial sector.

 

Only Belize and Guyana producer sugar for export and Belize was always smaller than Guyana.

 

The question will be with such massive losses at what point does it not make sense to do what Trinidad and St Kitts (and before them Antigua, St Lucia, St Vincent and Grenada did) and that is to pull the plug.

 

Even the DR and Cuba, which used to be among the top 10 global sugar producers, have vastly reduced their industries, and diversified their economy.

 

Guyana is so intent on maintaining the same economy which it has in 1940.  Sugar, rice, bauxite, gold, and timber.  Only difference being that gold was a minor export then, and it now exceeds the value of the other exports, combined.

FM
Originally Posted by Ramakant-P:

As more and more people migrate from the sugar plantation, sugar production will be lessened.   Guyana still produces more sugar than the 1960's..

Stop chatting nonsense. Sugar production now is scarcely better than it was in the late PNC era.  And that was before hundreds of millions of US dollars was squandered on Skeldon.

 

What happened to the 400k tons which Jagdeo screamed about when people like Chris Ram warned him not to waste money in that venture?

FM
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Originally Posted by Jay Bharrat:

Problem is the PPP still does not have a plan to fix sugar.

 

If they have to sell the power plants to raise money, what will they sell next.

 

Why don't they try to sell it to the Chinese, since they are selling everything else to the Chinese.

Skeldon estate still provide jobs for the People.   The Indians no longer want to work in the cane fields.  maybe you should try working there for a change and you will know why.  All Indians should leave Guyana an djoin their families abroad, like you all did.  Leave Guyana to caribj and the negroids.

R

Ram:

 

Your response sounds flippant and trite. The PPP dropped the ball when it comes to sugar, and still think it "owns" the sugar workers' votes.

 

Many don't have a choice of jobs and have to work in the cane fields. Agro-industries, canning was never developed by the govt.  Getting a Bharriott was more important.

FM
Originally Posted by Jay Bharrat:

 

Why don't they try to sell it to the Chinese, since they are selling everything else to the Chinese.

Because they don't want Rose Hall to be another Linden. When the Chinese took over they laid off huge numbers of people, and treat those who remain as abused slaves.

 

The PPP dares not try the same thing with their base.

FM
Originally Posted by Ramakant-P:
Originally Posted by Jay Bharrat:

Problem is the PPP still does not have a plan to fix sugar.

 

If they have to sell the power plants to raise money, what will they sell next.

 

Why don't they try to sell it to the Chinese, since they are selling everything else to the Chinese.

Skeldon estate still provide jobs for the People.   The Indians no longer want to work in the cane fields.  maybe you should try working there for a change and you will know why.  All Indians should leave Guyana an djoin their families abroad, like you all did.  Leave Guyana to caribj and the negroids.

As it happened in the past centuries, the affluent followed the impoverished to British Guiana. Today, some of impoverished stole their way to affluence. And when the Indians are no more in Guyana, the like of Jagdeo, Persaud and other parasite will find the Indians and such their blood. Have seen how many Affluent Indians were created in New York who did despicable acts to get rich fast.

S
Originally Posted by Jay Bharrat:

These sentiments are racist.  Every race has good people and bad people.  End the stereotyping.  We have to be advocates for the working poor.  Every Race Punishing.

You would rather peddle the race baiting lie that blacks control Guyana.

 

So who runs Guysuco?  Who are the folks who are seizing lands from rice farmers, who cannot repay them because the rice millers aren't paying them?  Note that sometimes the lenders and the millers are the same?

 

Reading your comments one would think that it is blacks who are to blame, as you claim that they "dominate" Guyana.

FM

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