Political my ASS!!  SLAVERY NO MORE, THE HARD WORKING SUGAR WORKERS MUST BE PAID LIKE THE MINISTERS ARE:  50% INCREASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stirring the shite pot.

Several from different ethnics claimed the Indentured servant were not necessary to save the sugar industry back in1838. Well, if dey really saved it, then they can shut in down.

The government needs to Trump GuySuco as soon as possible before the creditors come after their assets.  They need to transfer the land to a different company.

Government cannot ask the sugar workers to save the industry and ignoring their call for an increase in salary. When government took a 50% pay raise, they didn't negotiate with anyone. Give the bloody people a 10% pay increase to do the work and save the industry. 

You are not addressing the fundamental issue.  The company is under a lot of debt.  It is only a matter of time before creditors come after the corporation's assets in an ABC court.

so this is your 'contribution'

thank gawd Guyanese voters cut the dicks off bilious skonts like u on 5/11

Sugar workers have to realize that half a loaf is better than  no loaf. This is not the time to strike.

Who seh suh? For sugar workers, there is no auspicious time to strike. New moon or full moon, rain or sun, $82B debt or $0 debt, any time can be strike time. Dem canecuttas does strike fuss and then inform GAWU to send somebaddy to negotiate terms of resumption. From 1947 to now, GIWU and PPP and GAWU conditioned field workers to strike as the main problem-solving tool.

I am betting anyone that GAWU and its members will contradict the OPM statement and go ahead with strikes before the current crop ends. And they will be counting on Bharrat Jagdeo to take up their fight.

As I mentioned before, there is no rhyme or reason in striking in the sugar industry. Nor in burning canefields. As the TIME magazine reported in 1964, canecutters doused cats with kerosene, set them alight and loosed them in canefields to spread the fire. 

Sugar workers must remember when Jagdeo & Ramotar tried to kill their Union GAWU...Who was there to defend them.

Light a candle for Guyana sugar workers –

Moses Nagamootoo lives

These dunces in power need to understand that it is not about sugar workers but really the prevailing wages for labor. Cutting cane is hard work and should be rewarded based on the labor rather than the price of sugar. Let the govt get all those sweet skinned public servants out into the field to fill in for the strikers and pay them cane cutter wages. 

Hydro seed, why are you being so cretinous?

Godey Walla do not understand .....

Jagdeo and Ramotar cannot

talk about wages for labor......

after they dragging around

Big Hefty Godey Pension Package and

left the Sugar Industry Broke & Bankrupt.....

when the last administration left office,

GuySuCo’s debt burden stood at $82 BILLION

1.  No one is forcing the cane cutters to cut cane.

2.  Their own GAWU boasts that they make US$6,000 annually, equivalent to US$500 monthly, way more than the average Guyanese worker, many who also work in the hot sun.

3.  I don't know what kind of capitalist that you are if you think that a loss making company can increase the level of its payroll expenses, this being its largest cost. A strike will merely hasten the decision that Guysuco should either be sold, or shut down.  In either instance sugar workers lose their jobs.

Dem boys thought was $8200.

It is not about what the company can pay but rather to cost of labor. Demand and supply. If Guysuco must depend on manual labor then they must pay for it. The apnu/afc have made no effort to mechanize during their short tenure in office. Their prime objective was filling their own pockets with perks and 50% raises. And we still don't know how much they are making from kickbacks as there is no transparency and they refuse to go along with Jagdeo in declaring assets. 

Godey Walla, if you agree to declare on GNI

the complete specs of Your Godey.....

we will amend the Cummingsberg Accord

so everyone must declare

whatever Godey Walla asking for.

PPP in power for 23 years and yet you don't blame them.  You blame APNU/AFC, even though they have been only around for 5 months.

You must truly have more faith in the ability of APNU/AFC to dramatically transform in 5 months, what the PPP COULD NOT DO in 23 years, than I do.

And yes Guysuco can hire workers, and then do what they did in May, and threaten them that they will not get paid.  If they have no cash they cannot pay.  And with gold down big time, the notion that the government has an unending ability to pour cash into a failing enterprise is silly.

Druggie Trinidad shut down their sugar industry, so don't think that Guyana cannot go down the same route, especially as it is a considerably poorer gov't.

Govt pegs GUYSUCO debt at $82B

Government has pegged the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO) debt at $82B and noting that a further bailout is anticipated for 2016, has declared that any further strike action would finally bring sugar to its knees. This is in view of the strikes that the corporation has been experiencing in recent times. The major labour unions are up in arms over Government’s delay to begin effective collective bargaining for 2015 wages and salaries. GUYSUCO has been receiving massive bailouts over the last five years- some $28B- despite its insolvent status over the years. This is coupled with the fact that an expected $5B is needed for capital investment. “The Coalition did not create the problems affecting the sugar industry. The blame ought to be placed elsewhere,” the government said in a statement. “It is government’s view that any industrial action at this time will place the industry into further jeopardy. Government is regrettably unable to increase the bailout package above the $12B for 2015 and strike action will not change this reality.” “In the meantime Government is analyzing the interim findings and recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry,” the statement went on to state. “Guyana Agriculture Workers Union (GAWU) as an integral part of the COI ought to know that industrial agitation is not an option at this time.” ”Government once again implores all sugar workers to steadfastly remain committed to the industry and to partner with management for its recovery,” the statement said. “It is critical that sugar workers know the following pertinent facts. Production slumped from 327,000 metric tonnes in the 1960s to an average of below 250,000 tonnes between 2008 and 2014. Under the former (administration), the sugar industry never came close to realizing the promised 500,000 tonnes target.” It noted that between 2009 and 2015 GUYSUCO not only failed to make a profit but suffered estimated total losses of $67.8B. “When the previous administration left office, GUYSUCO’s debt burden stood at $82B. It is therefore irrefutable that under that administration, GUYSUCO had lost its way.” The release went on to note that the interim report from the Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the sugar industry had confirmed the poor and declining state of GUYSUCO was as a result of “political interference, poor management and squander mania.” “The Government is seeking to put a Ten Year Road Map and Action Plan in place, aimed at returning the industry to viability,” the release said. “It would therefore be ill advised and indeed premature to commence wages talks before this plan is considered. Unions that seek to drag the sugar corporation to the table to do so are obviously pursuing a political agenda which unfortunately is not in the interest of sugar workers.” “The Government has, for the first time, allowed management to run GUYSUCO independently and to make it a top priority (to find) a lasting solution to secure employment and also to make the industry profitable,” the release said, ending with an appeal for sugar workers to stand committed.

You folks led by the bajan singer were bragging and boasting how you could turn sugar around, pointing to Brazil as a model of what you would achieve once in power. Now it looks like you throw up the white flag. 

the best way to fix sugar is to sell Guysuco, but as many Indos in the Corentyne and elsewhere see their livelihoods disappear, as did those in Linden, they will scream "black man a kill ahbie" and resume protesting outside the UN with screams of a Rwanda style genocide in Guyana.

Maybe APNU/AFC will have the testicular fortitude to do as Jagdeo did to bauxite, and ignore his effeminate screams when they do so.

Hey Angostura will buy it for molasses, maybe a joint venture with DDL, and shut down all that is not necessary to do so.

That way you all can blame Yesu, and the Trinis.

Stop blaming the Indians, blame Granger who does not have the brains or brawn to sell Guysuco. Your apnu is not in charge, instruct them to do the necessary deed or stay quiet and take the blame for the party's incompetence. 

So why didn't the PPP fix Guysuco if they are so bright?

I don't know that the PPP was bright. But the afc/apnu claimed they had the solution so the ball is now in your court, stop deflecting and come up with the solutions you promised during the campaign.

Really, well why then do you scream the Jagdeo rant that the PPP did better?

The PPP dumped Guyana into a hole and even Jesus would need more than 5 months to pull it out.

In fact billions of dollars in debt its likely that NO ONE will be foolish enough to buy Guysuco.   Blame your PPP for not selling Guysuco at the same time that they sold Guymine.

CaribJ why don't you shut yu rass if you do not understand the issues.

JUST shut up.  Please for god sake.

So enlighten me.  What are the issues? 

I know that Guysuco is where Guymine was, so should be disposed of similarly.  Sugar workers will have t adjust as bauxite workers had to.