The sugar industry is in trouble. It is irresponsible for GAWU to order a strike at this time for Recognition of all Sugar workers under GAWU's banner.
It is also more irresponsible for the PM to threaten the sugar workers that the end result of their strike will be the ultimate shut down and closer of the Sugar Industry.
Hold on until the government starts collecting royalty from ExxonMobil. GAWU will have to think twice before every strike.
So your government is waiting for oil revenue for exploration started under the PPP watch? You guys are shameless as now you take credit for initiatives that the PPP started. Look how now you hold on to the Marriott and the Providence stadium. Under the PPP they were both described as white elephants.
BG_S, there is nothing new under the sun. When the PPP won the 1992 election President Jagan continued implementing the main features of Desmond Hoyte's Economic Recovery Programme [ERP].
For most of his political life, Cheddi Jagan advocated "nationalization of the commanding heights of the economy." He supported Burnham's nationalization of bauxite and sugar companies and banks and even called on Burnham to nationalize the foreign insurance companies too. When Dr Jagan got into government, however, he retained the Privatization Unit which Hoyte had formed to sell off state corporations and agencies.
When the PPP was in the opposition, Dr Jagan used to condemn the PNC regime for accepting "IMF diktat." However, after 1992 the PPP government itself accepted IMF terms.
The PPP regime also retained the Social Impact Amelioration Programme [SIMAP] which Hoyte had set up and which was funded from the sales of wheat flour that the US was giving Guyana free under its PL480 Program.
The PPP government got the most royalty from Omai Gold Mines which started operating under an agreement with Hoyte and Greenidge.
Both Presidents Cheddi and Janet Jagan governments collected their portions of dividends from GT&T which Hoyte had sold to foreigners while keeping 20% shareholding.
I can give more examples showing how President Jagan's government carried on and benefited from Hoyte's PNC regime's policies. No one said Jagan and the PPP were shameless. Politics is politics. It is unrealistic to expect the APNU+AFC government to start from scratch with its own policies and programmes, to reinvent the wheel. Present governments build on the foundations of past governments. So it goes.