The estates need to be reopened and get totally diversified away from both sugar and limit their agriculture to only crops that have international markets. Make the estates science research and business development parks.

Prashad posted:

The estates need to be reopened and get totally diversified away from both sugar and limit their agriculture to only crops that have international markets. Make the estates science research and business development parks.

Research what? How can you do research when you don't have a stable power supply?

When Linden and other bauxite areas suffered when the vast majority of bauxite workers lost their jobs did you care?  No you didn't. Maybe you even screamed "black man lazy and ungrateful".

What goes around comes around. Why scream when sugar workers get the same treatment as the bauxite workers did?

If these canecutters had been cutting cane instead of hanging round in the rumshop and coming in to work drunk, the estate would have been profitable. The workers got what they deserved. They wanted more pay for less work. This is pay back.

Earlier this week Ramjattan was shamelessly blaming the retrenched sugar workers for why house to house wasn’t done earlier. He told the people of Berbice that they had to use the money to pay sugar workers severance pay instead. Maybe he thought telling them that will cause them to see the Coalition as a savior but he may have done quite the opposite of opening that door that the Coalition cannot hide from. I am guessing that a PNC idiot wrote Ramjattan’s talking points as there is no way Ramjattan is that foolish.

caribny posted:

When Linden and other bauxite areas suffered when the vast majority of bauxite workers lost their jobs did you care?  No you didn't. Maybe you even screamed "black man lazy and ungrateful".

What goes around comes around. Why scream when sugar workers get the same treatment as the bauxite workers did?

I have to say this unreservedly, you are a real jackass. All that griping about racism means little if you cannot view current realities as they exist and suggest solutions to match them without always reflecting on sacred victimization. Those suffering people did not abuse Lindeners and who did that ought to be shown better management principles for dealing with dislocated workers.

Mr.T posted:

If these canecutters had been cutting cane instead of hanging round in the rumshop and coming in to work drunk, the estate would have been profitable. The workers got what they deserved. They wanted more pay for less work. This is pay back.

the industry failed because as Professor David G. Victor noted, Democratic institutions are weak and governments are corrupt. Compound that with our ethnic problems and the state mismanage everything....not one successful industry since the founding of the state. It is not about these people and their flaws.

Stormborn posted:

 

I have to say this unreservedly, you are a real jackass. All that griping about racism means little if you cannot view current realities as they exist and suggest solutions to match them without always reflecting on sacred victimization. Those suffering people did not abuse Lindeners and who did that ought to be shown better management principles for dealing with dislocated workers.

Yes I agree with you.  Indians are a superior race whose needs have to be catered to. Who the hell cares if black people starve!

The same forces that led to the abuse of bauxite workers now resulted in the abuse of sugar workers.  When people spoke of the bauxite workers we were called anti Indian trouble makers.  Well the shoe fell on the other foot now, so why the screams.

skeldon_man posted:

Prashad posted:

The estates need to be reopened and get totally diversified away from both sugar and limit their agriculture to only crops that have international markets. Make the estates science research and business development parks.

Research what? How can you do research when you don't have a stable power supply?

Guyana needs a milk powder factory, a workable substitute found in Guyana for limestone so that the country can make its own cement, more housing construction workers need to be trained, the country needs to develop its own sinks and indoor toilet manufacture. The development of rice flour as a working flour that can open up a new local market for rice farmers. These are some areas. A solar and wind power supply can be an area to be researched also.

Prashad posted:

skeldon_man posted:

Prashad posted:

The estates need to be reopened and get totally diversified away from both sugar and limit their agriculture to only crops that have international markets. Make the estates science research and business development parks.

Research what? How can you do research when you don't have a stable power supply?

Guyana needs a milk powder factory, a workable substitute found in Guyana for limestone so that the country can make its own cement, more housing construction workers need to be trained, the country needs to develop its own sinks and indoor toilet manufacture. The development of rice flour as a working flour that can open up a new local market for rice farmers. These are some areas. A solar and wind power supply can be an area to be researched also.

Good ideas. Send them to the big boys in Guyana.

Leonora posted:

Prashad posted:

skeldon_man posted:

Prashad posted:

The estates need to be reopened and get totally diversified away from both sugar and limit their agriculture to only crops that have international markets. Make the estates science research and business development parks.

Research what? How can you do research when you don't have a stable power supply?

Guyana needs a milk powder factory, a workable substitute found in Guyana for limestone so that the country can make its own cement, more housing construction workers need to be trained, the country needs to develop its own sinks and indoor toilet manufacture. The development of rice flour as a working flour that can open up a new local market for rice farmers. These are some areas. A solar and wind power supply can be an area to be researched also.

Good ideas. Send them to the big boys in Guyana.

Gyal, nobody in Guyana nah care fuh any ideas. Dem all sitting and waiting fuh Guyana to ejaculate ile.  Den de whole country will have wan huge orgasm.  What they should ensure is that Guyana gat lots a cigarettes for dat huge orgasm. Light cigarettes afta Guyana ejaculates all dat ile and de whole damn country goes up in smoke. 

Ksaz, are you ok? Lent your handle to someone? Please go take a cold shower!

Leonora posted:

Ksaz, are you ok? Lent your handle to someone? Please go take a cold shower!

Gyal, cold showers don't work. Conditions still remain the same.

Prashad posted:

skeldon_man posted:

Prashad posted:

The estates need to be reopened and get totally diversified away from both sugar and limit their agriculture to only crops that have international markets. Make the estates science research and business development parks.

Research what? How can you do research when you don't have a stable power supply?

Guyana needs a milk powder factory, a workable substitute found in Guyana for limestone so that the country can make its own cement, more housing construction workers need to be trained, the country needs to develop its own sinks and indoor toilet manufacture. The development of rice flour as a working flour that can open up a new local market for rice farmers. These are some areas. A solar and wind power supply can be an area to be researched also.

 A powdered milk factory is easy to set up. It would also allow for a new industry to come on line. Our lack of consistent electricity may be the case this has not happened but in Skeldon; there is capacity but it  can not be used by the grid. There is a 10 Megawatt wind mill that a fellow built with loans from India but he cannot get the government to tie his system to the grid. He said he was being forced to dismantle and ship it back to India.

Limestone could be sourced from Jamaica. They have lots and are not using it. We have old mountains from the pre Cretaceous period ( some of the oldest on the planet and these are uplifts from ancient oceans so they will contain limestone. However, it would be easier to bring it in wit barges. 

There are many packing plants for rice. I am sure the can retrofit a milling system to produce rice flour among other products. The Chinese are masters of producing hundreds of byproducts from rice. 

Good ideas.