Ifffffffffffffff only my countrymen had a different choice other than those that the PPP and PNC have tarnished.

Maybe the TUC should put some one forward. It is a way out of the quagmire.

The AFC appears to be using the livelihood of the sugar workers as a political football.

AFC did not put Raj Singh on the CEO. AFC is not responsible for Skeldon corruption factory. As usual Conscience post lies

Its clear to see that the AFC has joined the ranks of the APNU calling for the closure of GUYSUCO, many sugar workers are the sole breadwinners for their families.

LIE. Nobody ever called for closing the industry.

conman their is no more guyanese left the ppp can fool,its over you can stop the shit 

Its time the sugar workers take a stand against the APNU/AFC.

Seem like they taking a stand against PPP

oh god you like a goddam robot,the sugar workers was fighting the pnc for the past 50 yrs only now they get smart and know the devil live within the ppp

What a congenital liar! You lie and belive your own lies. What do you do? Lock yourself in a room and repeat you lies until it's entrenched in your malformed brain? Oh what ignorance.

We must see the PPP statement for what it is: a desperate attempt to salvage and revitalize its dwindling Indo voters bank.

One tactic towards this objective is to equate the AFC with the PNC and charge "guilt by association."

But, as we know by now, the PPP is not above using lies and distortions as tools to further its cause.

And the AFC has reacted swiftly and justly to rubbish the PPP.

In a statement today, the AFC says: "The Alliance For Change wishes to categorically state that it never promoted a position to close the sugar industry. This is downright political wickedness on the part of the tottering PPP/C Governemnt. The headline in the PPP controlled Guyana Chronicle of Thursday, March 13, 2014 is nothing but gross misrepresentation."

The AFC explains: "This government is hard-headed and cannot understand the difference between transformation and closure. To make it clear, the AFC’s call for transformation would ensure the survival and sustainability of the industry based on complete sacking and replacement of the Board of Directors with competent persons, a Commission of Inquiry into the Skeldon Factory where $44 billion of taxpayers money went into modernising this ‘white elephant’, diversification to include ethanol production and alcohol products and involve the Union in the management of the Corporation."

Show the evidence AFC and APNU say close the sugar industry.

When the AFC visits the sugar workers again, they may be greeted with cold shoulders...

When the PPP visit them they will pelt them with rotten eggs for destroying the sugar industry.

The industry fails for want of competent management. Raj singh represents this failure. Not caring for competent management they implant this nincompoop as CEO. If the industry is to exist to provide employment for these assortment of idiots then prudence demands one act to close it down. If as the AFC has constantly suggested ( via many position papers)  the industry diversify, become leaner and not be used as a PPP leech source, it can have a  great future.

That   they rely on  inane messengers of untruths and  half truths as you, means they do not intend to be better men. You represent the state of rot that is our sugar industry. It is wholly the PPP's making.

Even Donald Ramotar the current President President of Guyana who is a lier and a dunce as well started the debacle of Guysuco. Must allocate some of the blame to this Corrupt PPP/C dunce. 

DUNCE CAP

MORE LIES from the PPP.  What will NEZ Sudhan from GINA, that allou ball seh to this AFC statement found in SN:

The AFC in its statement said that it wished to categorically state that it never promoted a position to close the industry.

“This is downright political wickedness on the part of the tottering PPP/C Governemnt. The headline in the PPP controlled Guyana Chronicle of Thursday, March 13, 2014 is nothing but gross misrepresentation. This government is hard-headed and cannot understand the difference between transformation and closure. To make it clear, the AFC’s call for transformation would ensure the survival and sustainability of the industry based on complete sacking and replacement of the Board of Directors with competent persons, a Commission of Inquiry into the Skeldon Factory where $44 billion of taxpayers money went into modernising this ‘white elephant’, diversification to include ethanol production and alcohol products and involve the Union in the management of the Corporation”, the AFC said. It charged that after some 21 years in power, it was the PPP government that has brought the sugar industry to ruination through mismanagement, cronyism and disregard for the livelihoods of sugar workers.

“While it accuses the AFC of supporting the closure of the sugar industry it is in fact the government that is slowly tightening the noose around GuySuCo’s neck by continuing to place square pegs in round holes to manage the industry. The government is also guilty of siphoning off billions of dollars from the EU that could have been spent to turn the industry around but instead used much of the EU funds intended for sugar to prop-up the economy while it allowed sugar to slide into further failures”, the AFC declared.

On Wednesday, the main sugar union GAWU called on the government to transfer to the industry all the monies that the EU had given to Guyana since 2007 to cushion the impact on the sugar industry here of reforms to the EU sugar regime.

“The position of the Alliance For Change is that GuySuCo must be transformed to make it economically viable and this can be done by ensuring better management of the corporation, retooling the industry to ensure better production and moving towards meaningful diversification and integration of other by-products such as  ethanol production”, the AFC argued.

you is the biggest dunce

Oi conscience ak Nez Shihan, come HERE lem me knuckle yu for Lying AGAIN!

Thanks Mrs. Malaprop. What unparalleled ignorance from a third rate educated idiot.

Dont get blood pressure old fool. Try get some fresh air leave the basement

Down to name calling heh? I live in a healthy state. I own my house and don't need to stay in a basement. Do you know what a basement looks like? My basement is better equipped than most houses in Guyana. I can live comfortably in my basement. So shut your ugly face. Zip it!

Please check your blood pressure. Yes I visit NY and saw basements. I travel to 41 countries. 

Yep, my blood pressure is 120/60. Pulse 60. Me hear you prappa ah fall fuh dem ole man. You tink dem gat plenty plenty money.

Skelly, I know where I'll stay when I visit your neck of the woods. Put in a nice kattia/cot fo me, bai.

JB, you'd be pleasantly surprised if you visit some Guyanese basements in Toronto. Big plasma TV, fridge, well-stocked bar, comfy chairs, etc. Washroom too.

I went to one, the man got a water bed there too?

Now why he need a water bed down there???

Like he does shake the foundation or what??

March fuh the people Moses, March!

Na worry bhai. No smoking or drinking in my neck of the woods.

My basement use to be my office when I was in the work force. I do still keep my desktop computers and music in my basement.

Yuh doan y the waterbed. With a good woman in the bed, for every push in yuh make the bed gives two pushes in return.

The sympathy votes gained by the AFC in 2011  have all evaporated....

• Sarah Boseley, health editor
• The Guardian, Thursday 9 January 2014

A 330ml Coca cola can is reported to contain nine teaspooons of sugar. The company says it has the cut calories of some of its soft drinks. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty

 

 

Obesity experts are launching a campaign to put pressure on the government and industry to cut the sugar content of food and drinks by up to 30%. The high-profile scientists and doctors behind Action on Sugar say that gradual cuts in the amount of sugar in ready meals, cereals, sweets and soft drinks will not be noticed by the public, but will result in a reduction in the calories we all consume.

A 20-30% reduction in sugar over time will cut our calorie intake by about 100kcal a day – and more for those who consume a lot of sugar.

That is enough to halt or even reverse the obesity epidemic and reduce the toll of diabetes and other disease, say the doctors, who include Robert Lustig, author of Fat Chance: The Bitter Truth About Sugar, and Professors John Wass, academic vice-president of the Royal College of Physicians, Philip James of the International Association for the Study of Obesity and Sir Nicholas Wald of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine.

Action on Sugar aims to do what a similar campaign launched in the 1990s called Cash (Consensus Action on Salt and Health) successfully did for salt levels in our food. It is chaired by Professor Graham MacGregor, who also heads Cash.

"Provided the sugar reductions are done slowly, people won't notice," he said. "In most products in the supermarkets, the salt has come down by between 25% and 40%."

So you wish.  The AFC said they want Guysuco fixed, and many sugar workers might well agree with them.

What APNU says about Guysuco matters not as they dont get votes from trhe sugar belt.

Obesity experts campaign to cut sugar in food by up to 30%

Doctors say marketing ploys to cut calories are ineffective, now industry must slowly lower sugar content of processed foods

• Sarah Boseley, health editor
• The Guardian, Thursday 9 January 2014

A 330ml Coca cola can is reported to contain nine teaspooons of sugar. The company says it has the cut calories of some of its soft drinks. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty

 

 

Obesity experts are launching a campaign to put pressure on the government and industry to cut the sugar content of food and drinks by up to 30%. The high-profile scientists and doctors behind Action on Sugar say that gradual cuts in the amount of sugar in ready meals, cereals, sweets and soft drinks will not be noticed by the public, but will result in a reduction in the calories we all consume.

A 20-30% reduction in sugar over time will cut our calorie intake by about 100kcal a day – and more for those who consume a lot of sugar.

That is enough to halt or even reverse the obesity epidemic and reduce the toll of diabetes and other disease, say the doctors, who include Robert Lustig, author of Fat Chance: The Bitter Truth About Sugar, and Professors John Wass, academic vice-president of the Royal College of Physicians, Philip James of the International Association for the Study of Obesity and Sir Nicholas Wald of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine.

Action on Sugar aims to do what a similar campaign launched in the 1990s called Cash (Consensus Action on Salt and Health) successfully did for salt levels in our food. It is chaired by Professor Graham MacGregor, who also heads Cash.

"Provided the sugar reductions are done slowly, people won't notice," he said. "In most products in the supermarkets, the salt has come down by between 25% and 40%."

A lot of the sugar is high fructose corn syrup. Corn farmers in the Mid West will suffer more.  Indeed there are even attempts to replace HFCS with cane sugar, especially unrefined.