quote:Originally posted by Churchill:
FYI ...I have always supported the PPP and there are many like myself within the PPP overseas support structure who believe that the Jagdeo/Ramoutar clique has screwed the working people of Guyana especially the sugar workers.....
I know for a fact that the strikning sugar workers at Blairmont invited the AFC in after their complaints fell on deaf ears...
One member of the Jagdeo/Ramoutar clique was a PNC appointee at GUYSUCO and was stationed at Blairmont in the late seventie/early eighties....this person who holds a fake PhD was very abusive to the workers when he was stationed there....he now sits on the GUYSUCO board whilst he resides in the USA....
The sugar workers are fighting for what they earn honestly whilst this guys goes home on GUYSUCO's expense....it is rumoured that he even claimed expenses for trips he made to guyana to campaign for ramoutar....
A few individuals abusing the system is not the cause of the sugar industry failure, the bigger picture is that it is been run inefficiently due to dependence on manual labor. The management issue is another matter, that is why I have always advocated that govt run industry is wrong model. How is govt the right body to be running a business?