I have a hunch there is collusion at the highest level across the political divide to kill Guysuco. They will divvy up the land among elites and former army big wigs. Watch and see...but they are not observant of history and they underestimate the difficult conditions of the man-made polder system.

Central America, the Caribbean, Cuba, China, India, Philippines, Thailand to name a few,

No country with Black governance cannot successfully produce sugar. After they fled the plantations they have a "bitter" taste for sugar, but on the other hand they become good provision farmers.

Any govt run company will invariably fail. The PPP couldn't make sugar profitable and now we should not be surprised that the PNC are just as incompetent. 

One point coming out from the video on the disgraceful encounter at Red House is how naïve and messed up the economic perspectives of some PPP supporters are. I am talking about the comment made that sugar workers did not get a bonus. Of course, the Minister took her rant to lower level. This PPP guy should spend 5 years in the US and observe how businesses and governments operate. Who the hell gives bonus and salary increase to workers in a dying industry? In any state or municipal government in the US many would have gone home by now (not even counting private sector) or they would have to take a salary cut (like we had to do in Florida in 2009). GAWU and PPP should be telling sugar workers it is better to get some work than none at all. Tell them we ALL have to sacrifice to save the industry.

GAWU and PPP should have a plan on how to diversify production because G$15 billion subsidy to sugar each year will eventually bankrupt the country and all races will face massive devaluations and financial stress. On another matter, I saw Jagdeo saying how much lands he sold to the Burnham family. That's very interesting. I guess this is how it works down there, if you decide to take sure you share it widely. Indeed, the PPP shared lots of lands and gold mining rights to elite PNC supporters. I keep telling you guys...do a count. Ultimately, systems and order work better for everyone. We should not have to rely on political connections for anything.

kp posted:

Central America, the Caribbean, Cuba, China, India, Philippines, Thailand to name a few,

No country with Black governance cannot successfully produce sugar. After they fled the plantations they have a "bitter" taste for sugar, but on the other hand they become good provision farmers.

I don't know about sugar, but I can tell you about aggregate economic performance and the human development index. While it is true several black countries are poor because of bad leaders, you have some spectacular black successes that no Indian state can match (except perhaps Mauritius and I am sure Mauritian people are sophisticated enough to know they are not an Indian state) . As a matter of fact, UP and Bihar are more backward, poor and corrupt than almost any African state. Several black countries in the Caribbean, Botswana, Namibia, Rwanda and others have superior living conditions than UP or Bihar. I'd say take the shit out of our eyes first before daubing it on others.

kp posted:

 

No country with Black governance cannot successfully produce sugar.

And GuySICKO was a thriving company under the PPP with millions in profits and production at 400k?

Your racism is astounding.   The difference between your PPP Guyana and the rest is that they saw the writing on the wall and took the EU money to transform their economies and retrain their workers.

The result being your PPP supporters fleeing to these islands away from Jagdeo rule.

TK posted:

(except perhaps Mauritius and I am sure Mauritian people are sophisticated enough to know they are not an Indian state) .

What will interest PPP supporters about Mauritius is that there the Hindus are the civil servants, the police men and the soldiers.

The business class consists heavily of the Chinese, the creole whites, and the Muslim traders with their Indian Ocean heritage of trading. 

And Mauritius has miniaturized its sugar and moved on to garments and tourism.

TK posted:

 

GAWU and PPP should have a plan on how to diversify production because G$15 billion subsidy to sugar each year will eventually bankrupt the country and all races will face massive devaluations and financial stress. On another matter, I saw Jagdeo saying how much lands he sold to the Burnham family. That's very interesting. I guess this is how it works down there, if you decide to take sure you share it widely. Indeed, the PPP shared lots of lands and gold mining rights to elite PNC supporters. I keep telling you guys...do a count. Ultimately, systems and order work better for everyone. We should not have to rely on political connections for anything.

 

 

1. Jagdeo sold NOTHING to the Burnham family.

2. This statement is all in the "black man a kill ahbe" vein.

It is more fun to engage in racial panic than in sound strategy. Were Jagdeo ethical who would to devising and discussing ways to reduce production costs at Guysuco and figuring out how to help impacted workers to transition to other industries.

He abandoned the bauxite workers because most were black, and feels that his mainly Indian sugar worker base should be subsidized infinitum, using the electricity subsidy at Linden (BOSAI being the largest beneficiary) as a weapon.