Sugar workers are mainly unskilled and with limited education. Employment in Guyana is scarce.

What new skills these ppl are supposed to acquire for the future?

Their prospects are like the Untouchables of India, doing menial jobs for the well to do for pitance. 

seignet posted:

Sugar workers are mainly unskilled and with limited education. Employment in Guyana is scarce.

What new skills these ppl are supposed to acquire for the future?

Their prospects are like the Untouchables of India, doing menial jobs for the well to do for pitance. 

Dinosaur PPP thinking pon display! These people do manual labor which is not restricted to use only in the sugar industry. There are other industries that require manual labor, the PPP's failure to nurture and encourage such industries over 23+ years and keep these people cutting cane is the problem.

Secondly they may be poor and uneducated but I'm sure not stupid. They can learn to operate a machine or use some new tool. In case yuh din notice, a lot of farm and agricultural tasks now subject to automation.

Dem blackman teach you good although yuh lil schupid and yuh become successful. Why you tink yuh mattie Indian can't do the same, eh?

I had to come to North America to use dem Black ppl smarts. Guyana, I would be just a poor man. 

Guyanese going to work on large farms? That is a joke. The Hatians are a better prospect. 

Where are those machine operator jobs? Yuh dreaming. Guyana has no jobs for anyone, right now.

Thiefing is about the only thing available.

Guys, sugar workers may be unskilled, but they're not stupid. They can learn if they are given the opportunity. If the sugar industry were profitable and management wants to introduce modern technology, would they hired skilled workers or over the unskilled cane cutters or give them the opportunity to learn and keep their jobs?

I believe in a country that invests in its workers. Neither the PNC not PPP has done that to the unskilled sugar workers. 

Both major political parties are treating the backbone of Guyana like shit. When voting time comes around, they campaign on the same people they treated like shit. 

I worked in the sugar when it was owned by Bookers. And even then, workers idle most of the time. Waste time management is a real problem with Guyanese workers.