"GuySuCo has been allocated some $6.3 billion to support its reduced operations in 2018, another $5B has been set aside to pay severance to almost 4,000 laid off workers, and another 10,000 workers will be employed at the three remaining estates – Albion, Blairmont and Uitvlugt."

From the Minister comments 4,000 workers will be laid off,hopefully these workers can find alternative work or GUYSUCO should lease some lands for farming,so they can get a head start to provide for their families.

An idea comes to mind,GUYSUCO,should lease lands to the affected workers.The workers should form Cooperatives and get into Sugar Cane Farming,that will be a win-win for both.Here comes GAWU to the rescue,provide start up loans to the workers.

It's tough to loose your job.

This may be so, but how is the government addressing the problem? 

There is a pattern of mistreating people who are seen to be supporters of the opposition party.

VishMahabir posted:

This may be so, but how is the government addressing the problem? 

There is a pattern of mistreating people who are seen to be supporters of the opposition party.

Like you just wake up and crawled out from under the comforts of your rock? 

Django posted:

"GuySuCo has been allocated some $6.3 billion to support its reduced operations in 2018, another $5B has been set aside to pay severance to almost 4,000 laid off workers, and another 10,000 workers will be employed at the three remaining estates – Albion, Blairmont and Uitvlugt."

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From the Minister comments 4,000 workers will be laid off....

Actually, the master plan calls for 6,000 layoffs, leaving GuySuCo with 10,000 to sustain the remaining estates. Before the current sacking there were 16,000 sugar workers according to GAWU.

There are several factors for the demise of Guysuco

1. The industry failed to find products that it can grow to replace or grow with sugar.

2. Global warming and it's impact on soil/weather.

3. Sugar is being slowly replaced in developed countries with artificial sweatners and other such products.

4. No parent want their child to be a canecutter.

VishMahabir posted:

This may be so, but how is the government addressing the problem? 

There is a pattern of mistreating people who are seen to be supporters of the opposition party.

You must have read what the govt has planned. Given all you heard ...govt bailing out Guysuco every year because of under performance let us hear how you would have handled this problem had you been in govt.

Prashad posted:

There are several factors for the demise of Guysuco

1. The industry failed to find products that it can grow to replace or grow with sugar.

2. Global warming and it's impact on soil/weather.

3. Sugar is being slowly replaced in developed countries with artificial sweatners and other such products.

4. No parent want their child to be a canecutter.

Many workers would finish by 10:00 AM. Some would do fishing or plant cash crops to supplement their incomes but most find themselves in the rum shops. 

It's not easy to find people for manual labour.

Fuggason is an ASS Is Fuggason and the Namakaram Crabdaag promised the people that they will FIX Guysuco, they failed, they should QUIT but I will not hold my breath> Namakaram Crabdaag and incompetent Parasites do not quit!!!!

Nehru posted:

Fuggason is an ASS Is Fuggason and the Namakaram Crabdaag promised the people that they will FIX Guysuco, they failed, they should QUIT but I will not hold my breath> Namakaram Crabdaag and incompetent Parasites do not quit!!!!

when u drunk u can post shit the ppp should have close these estates a long time maybe it could have the take the shock effect off the workers 

warrior posted:

Nehru posted:

Fuggason is an ASS Is Fuggason and the Namakaram Crabdaag promised the people that they will FIX Guysuco, they failed, they should QUIT but I will not hold my breath> Namakaram Crabdaag and incompetent Parasites do not quit!!!!

when u drunk u can post shit the ppp should have close these estates a long time maybe it could have the take the shock effect off the workers 

Would have only meant starvation. It's coming.

VishMahabir posted:

This may be so, but how is the government addressing the problem? 

There is a pattern of mistreating people who are seen to be supporters of the opposition party.

The EU market for Guyana sugar is gone.  Guysuco is so far gone that no private investor will want it, at least for purposes other than using the lands for speculative real estate.

So what should the government do, and don't say endless bailouts because no government, least of all a poor one like Guyana, can afford to endless support an ailing industry.

I worked for a brief stint (six months) at Skeldon Estate's Lab. We analyzed sugar samples content in forecasting sugar production.

At that time, Guysuco was looking into rice production and I can tell you that it was the most fertile lands available for rice production. As usual, Guysuco failed to capitalize on the potential for massive yields of rice and the project fell apart.

There is a lot of land that can be used for many agricultural purposes by private investors. There is a lot of private cane owners at Skeldon, it would be nice if they can purchase the estate or parts of it.

I remember Gil posting about closure of an estate in the 30's (if I am correct) and the people bouncing back. Workers will have to slowly find alternatives to depending on Sugar. 

This is not the end of sugar and this will not be the end of Indos. They are tough and will endure and survive. Upper Corentyne will be devastated economically for the next five years but they will bounce back. Burhnam wanted to destroy Indos and Granger executed a part from Burnham's racist playbook.

Granger is a bare faced and racist liar by stating that Sugar is too important to close down the industry.

Indos are family oriented and overseas relatives will provide financial assistance to relatives back home. They are not alone, Moses and the PNC abandoned and lied to them but their own blood will not let them rot.

Yuji22.

Desperate times calls for desperate measures, look how the drug trade will prosper.

kp posted:

Desperate times calls for desperate measures, look how the drug trade will prosper.

Contraband will rise again (like Bitcoin) as the economy slides into a massive recession. Prashad's dream of an Indo homeland stands a remote chance of becoming a reality.

Brace yourself for a potential uprising.

Look at the scumbag Moses. Hell will refuse that piece of Trash.

yuji22 posted:

kp posted:

Desperate times calls for desperate measures, look how the drug trade will prosper.

Contraband will rise again (like Bitcoin) as the economy slides into a massive recession. Prashad's dream of an Indo homeland stands a remote chance of becoming a reality.

Brace yourself for a potential uprising.

An independent sovereign country for Guyanese East Indians, Douglas who love their Guyanese East Indian heritage and Allies of the  East Indian people of Guyana.

Prashad posted:

yuji22 posted:

kp posted:

Desperate times calls for desperate measures, look how the drug trade will prosper.

Contraband will rise again (like Bitcoin) as the economy slides into a massive recession. Prashad's dream of an Indo homeland stands a remote chance of becoming a reality.

Brace yourself for a potential uprising.

An independent sovereign country for Guyanese East Indians, Douglas who love their Guyanese East Indian heritage and Allies of the  East Indian people of Guyana.

Looks like it might happen sooner than you think. All the PNC folks(black people) will be in GT living off of oil money.