CBJ accused the MPCA of being bed with the SPA back in 1946. Today, Komal Chand is in bed with the PPP who is also the governing party.

Elites every where, living high, eating big and crapping on their subordinates.

That man Jagan was real STUPID.

jagan must be turning in his grave,the champion of the working class,this government cannot find money to pay the canecutters but the contracts workers at OP is living fat.this government is paying a bunch of fools to post shit on this site and they crying when they supporters is asking for a little more money to scratch out a simple living i guess history did not teach these fools nothing

Elections  are over.  The "working class" are of no use to the PPP until the next election when once again they will be made to feel that the PPP will protect them against "dem baaad blackman".

you black people have to stop this shit

Again the problem is govt running industry, this should be in private hands and let them deal with the labor issues. Govt is inherently inefficient in running any type of enterprise since they are spending tax payers dollars. The private enterprise would run a more profitable industry or close it if can not show a profit due to high labor costs. 

Low value-added labour cannot be compensated with high wages.  What is needed is modernization and skills enhancement to improve per-capita output as such productivity.  This is the only formula for a viable industry and better wages.

How profitable is sugar these days?  'We love to continue doing what we have always done'.  Maybe it is time to switch to something better..wonder if tea and coffee will be more profitable and if the world market is there??

Girl, wah stupitness diss, weh sugar cane dozz grow, tea and coffee don't.

Jamaica produces good coffee and Sri Lanka produces great teas, was thinking their climate is similar to Guyana's..thought I read somewhere that there are coffee plantations in Guyana??

http://www.jamaicacoffee.net/Cultivation-Process.html

 Coffee needs sheltered slopes and Tea and marsh do not go along together. Jamaican coffee is produced on mountain slopes. My mother plants coffee an they grow well off the coast on the sandy regions.

Correct!

Tea and coffee could be grown in NWD, Hosororo, Mabruma, Wauna, etc, not the hot flat lands of the coastal plains.

How about grapes? Could it grow in Guyana?

This was being done in this region in the 70's. The problem was to find people to work. I know someone (Mabaruma) who needs workers right now to harvest the palms for palm oil and to help clear the overgrowth of weeds and vines among the young palms. 

He needs to provide logie style accomodations and recruit workers like Gladstone did back in 1834. I think I know the family.

This will not work, he has to compete with higher wages in the mining sector as well as people going to the islands to work in the tourist industry.

All of you thinking like Burnham - produce everything locally. This is not a good economic strategy. Produce what you can earn a higher return from and import what's cheaper. That's the comparative advantage.

That is not going to work. Industrialized goods are not manufactured in Guyana and commodity prices are never going upwards.

The best thing to do is to live on what u produce. Forget about export.

Guysuco in private hands will be like Guymine taken over by BOSAI.  Massive job losses and the closure of the less profitable parts of their operations.

The PPP doesnt want to do to their supporters what they did to Linden.  The notion of cane cutters running wild with rage and then having to be shot is a disaster that they arent willing to face, nor GAWU realigning itself with the AFC, or bing replaced by another union.

Well Lindeners lost their jobs when it was no lnger profitable for BOSAI to hire them so the owners of a privatized Guysuco will do the same.

Clearly those who still work in sugar do so beause it is better than other options and how do you think they will react when the party which they supported since 1952 "betrays" them.

So no privatization for Guysuco.

The tourist industries are in trouble so if the Guyanese havent returned home from jobs cleaning toilets clearly starvation and illtreatment in Nevis and Barbados seems preferable.  Indeed so does a security job in Trinidad where occasionally the emplyer might kill the Guyanese if he dares to ask for proper pay at a Trini level.

They arent asking for that.  The question is if sugar is no longer profitable in Guyana what other industries can replace it.  With sugar prices being quite high if Guysuco is still losing money then clearly there is a problem.

There is a Third Economic Revolution coming-and sugar got no place in it. The PPP is going to be dead with their yatching boots on wid coconut oil dripping down their side burns. Dem cooolie razz only gat brain fuh stealing.

Maybe it can be a promising Industry in these parts of the country.

I was also thinking if we build up the beaches we can copy from Jamaica and open up resorts.  To stay at Riu Montego Bay is US$400 per night (all inclusive) in the winter.  If our produces are not profitable this might be a good alternative. 

I do agree, sugar has not been profitable for a while..Even rice is not profitable.  Let's brainstorm tourism.

Guyana has a different tourist product.  Eco lodges tied to activities.  Not all inclusives.

Guyana has the potential to develop a story which can sell.  It is beginning to get free publicity.  Just to show how incompetent they are a reality TV show arrives in Guyana looking for gold, and they dont make life sufficiently easy for these people so that they can put Guyana in a favorable light...instead it looked like some corrupt, and extremely backward country with an incompetent govt.

But the PPP thinks that malls, which will only recycle remittances, is the way to go.  Why are they so desperate to find some minimal sign of investment that they must hype that mall so much?

The name Jamaica is a brand name. Guyana is not and is often confused as being part of Africa. Women tourists outnumber male tourists. I wonder why?

Funny that the folks on that Discovery reality show knew full well that they were headed to the jungles of South America.

Now if the govt cannot take advantage of the fact that increasing numbers are becoming curious about this "mysterious" land, especially in the UK, then that reflects on them.

But then that will require more than just showing up when a man opens up a mall and them claiming credit for it.

Jamaica is a brand name indeed, and great for family vacations..kids under 12 stay and eat free at some resorts...over time with good advertising and service, resorts in Guyana can become a tourist attraction. 

Guyana does not have the natural beaches due to the naturally silty coastline.  That cannot change as it's the Amazon flow effects.  Guyana could be the bread basket for the tourist industry on the islands.

Caribbean govts have been complaining that cruise ships have not being buying caribbean products.  Small islands have gotten contracts to sell their two tomatoes and three carrots.

Guyana with the best potential for all types of food products misses an opportunity, because boasting that a multiplex cinema and a mall will employ 2,000...when its more like 200...is what is anational development plan.

What is one of the biggest complaints of many who visit the islands..a paucity of fresh foods?......who can supply this easily!!!!!

You speak as a dunce, for the past 1/2 century Guyana has been trying to break into the Caribbean market and even with Caricom there was resistance to Guyanese products as the claim was that locals would be put out of work.  You think it is so easy to get products to the Islands? Even with a Black govt under Burnham and Hoyte the Guyanese farmers were denied entry into Caribbean markets. 

I have relatives in the food export business in Guyana and they cannot get enough to supply the tourist island restaurants with fish and certain vegetables. One had to moved some ops to Surinaam due to certain fish supply issues in Guyana.  Another shipped a few air cargo containers of sun-ripe tomatoes and other vegetables to TT and was receiving calls for more within 48 hours.  His big issue is steady supply. The islands seem to have an insatiable appetite for good Guyana's food.

Brand Guyana should be in the foods we supply to these islands, a brand which commands premium prices.  This is where I have to admit, the PNC FCH program would have come into it's own.  Putting his racism aside, LFSB was ahead of his time on some fronts.

It's a great pity the PNC continue to project racial dominance, they may have been able to serve Guyana well in these areas.

Anyway, that's that, the PPP has to improve their act in getting Guyana's products into the restaurants and food shelves on the tourist islands.  The PPP is rife with incompetency.

Who has been preventing Guyanese from selling? Indeed the Guyanese higglers used to hop on planes with their foodstuff, even as far as St Maarten, and found ample buyers.  Bajans were glad for the Guyanese shrimp.

If Guyanese are reliable suppliers with quality products at competitive prices no merchant is going to refuse them.

But off course when Guyana sent the islands broken rice packed with sticks and stones and the occasional dead rat, it did develop a bad reputation.  After all who wants to spend all day picking out stones before cooking,  when the US rice is ready to go as soon as you open the package?

Now why dont you offer up evidence that a Guyanese exporter, who was reliable, offered quality products at decent prices was refused.  NOte that the CET means that products produced within CARICOM have preference over US products which pay higher tariffs...and if a country breaches this then Guyana can bring them before the CARICOm Council of Ministers of Trade.  Aside from the rice squabbles when has Guyana had to complain about food exports to CARICOM, and I already told you what the problem with the rice was.

Druggie read and learn.  I happen to agree 100% with this.  Inclusive of Burnham being a racist.  Were he not a racist, a petty communist and a power grabbing tyrant he might have actually done some good.

Maybe Lakeside resorts can work.  I still think we can capitalize on being 'the land of many waters'

Strip the race element aside, the PNC did have some good concepts.  A national front Govt between the PPP and PNC would do wonders for Guyana within 10 years.  Just too much selfish racism on both sides.  And to think, we fighting over a piece of real estate which 99% of the world have no frigging clue where it is.  What stupid people.

Yes, cheap transport for our food products to the tourist islands.

Finally, I am able to read the type of discussion I wanted to hear; free of racism and the cussouts.