Sugar is a 'dead' industry regardless of who governs. 

Govt policy and neglect brought us to where we are.  Guyana was a leading sugar producer in Caricom. Jagdeo's Skeldon factory scam contributed much to the current sate.  It's a sucking machine for state funds that never stops sucking.

Is that Jagdeo and the PPP's official assessment?

Did they list themselves as the perpetrator on the homicide report?

Anyone with common sense can conclude that since there is not much demand on the world market for sugar, we need to slowly switch to other things.  OLD WAYS NEED TO STOP OR WE WILL ALWAYS BE LEFT BEHIND.

The sugar worker must be well paid.  

Guyana still is the leading sugar producer.  This because Trinidad and St Kitts closed down their industries.  Barbados maintains it as a social program as many Bajans who work in it aren't going to get a job in a hotel or a bank.  Jamaica maintains it only for local consumption, mainly because of its large agro industrial sector.

Only Belize and Guyana producer sugar for export and Belize was always smaller than Guyana.

The question will be with such massive losses at what point does it not make sense to do what Trinidad and St Kitts (and before them Antigua, St Lucia, St Vincent and Grenada did) and that is to pull the plug.

Even the DR and Cuba, which used to be among the top 10 global sugar producers, have vastly reduced their industries, and diversified their economy.

Guyana is so intent on maintaining the same economy which it has in 1940.  Sugar, rice, bauxite, gold, and timber.  Only difference being that gold was a minor export then, and it now exceeds the value of the other exports, combined.

As more and more people migrate from the sugar plantation, sugar production will be lessened.   Guyana still produces more sugar than the 1960's..

Stop chatting nonsense. Sugar production now is scarcely better than it was in the late PNC era.  And that was before hundreds of millions of US dollars was squandered on Skeldon.

What happened to the 400k tons which Jagdeo screamed about when people like Chris Ram warned him not to waste money in that venture?

Problem is the PPP still does not have a plan to fix sugar.

If they have to sell the power plants to raise money, what will they sell next.

Why don't they try to sell it to the Chinese, since they are selling everything else to the Chinese.

Skeldon estate still provide jobs for the People.   The Indians no longer want to work in the cane fields.  maybe you should try working there for a change and you will know why.  All Indians should leave Guyana an djoin their families abroad, like you all did.  Leave Guyana to caribj and the negroids.

Ram:

Your response sounds flippant and trite. The PPP dropped the ball when it comes to sugar, and still think it "owns" the sugar workers' votes.

Many don't have a choice of jobs and have to work in the cane fields. Agro-industries, canning was never developed by the govt.  Getting a Bharriott was more important.

Fifteen years ago people told PPP and Jagdeo that Skeldon plant was a bad idea in light of the EPA. They put a good cussin on us. I mean nasty cussin. I expect to see Jagdeo and Brassington sell out the assets to selected friends.

Because they don't want Rose Hall to be another Linden. When the Chinese took over they laid off huge numbers of people, and treat those who remain as abused slaves.

The PPP dares not try the same thing with their base.

You all are already doing so.  Fleeing your Indic regime!

Nice! Proud AFC members!

As it happened in the past centuries, the affluent followed the impoverished to British Guiana. Today, some of impoverished stole their way to affluence. And when the Indians are no more in Guyana, the like of Jagdeo, Persaud and other parasite will find the Indians and such their blood. Have seen how many Affluent Indians were created in New York who did despicable acts to get rich fast.

These sentiments are racist.  Every race has good people and bad people.  End the stereotyping.  We have to be advocates for the working poor.  Every Race Punishing.

You would rather peddle the race baiting lie that blacks control Guyana.

So who runs Guysuco?  Who are the folks who are seizing lands from rice farmers, who cannot repay them because the rice millers aren't paying them?  Note that sometimes the lenders and the millers are the same?

Reading your comments one would think that it is blacks who are to blame, as you claim that they "dominate" Guyana.

Guyana producing sugar for $800 and selling for $300 is a blatant lie.

Only a PNC or AFC Guyanese would make up such a lie.

So why does Guysuco annually need huge levels of subsidies if it is a profitable company?

Ram:

That's a known fact we produce at a higher price than we sell for and, the Skeldon factory made that possible.