This Phantom Squad leader was once the Minister of Agriculture and bankrupted the sugar industry under his watch. He has some freakin nerve to talk about disrespect. 

Sugar workers and rice farmers are citizens of Guyana, not enemies of APNU+AFC.

 

These back bones of Guyana are not only disrespected by this lousy government, they are been beaten and robbed by pardoned criminal. No increase for them, yet they have to give up their two cents to the new national freedom criminals of Guyana. Yall don't have any shame? Is this the way yall intend to run government?

Over t he past decade the industry has been functioning at a loss. It is being heavily subsidized by the government so they are the  backbone of themselves. This strike is ill timed and serves only to lessen their chances that the industry can be restored to health. Guysuco has not even paid its NIS dues for awhile.

eunuch, make an effort to speak recognizable English please

 

thanks

GOLLUM!

Shut yuh Baxside and go to England!!!!!!!!!!!!

suh, u is "Red Wine"?

 

alyuh 2 illiterate alike and gat bt selling in common

The irony of a man who suddenly "discovered" that sugar workers are "suffering".

 

If he cared about them he would have ensured that Guysuco was managed properly.

It is obvious that Guyana can't produce sugar competitively. Granger should take the bold step of privatizing the industry. The private sector will then decide if it is profitable. The subsidies needed to stop as I don't see the benefit it is bringing Guyana. It would be cheaper to give sugar workers welfare check rather than keep subsidizing shortfalls with taxpayers dollars. 

Good point i was thinking the same,or is it pride GY have

to keep it afloat.

The industry should be privatized, and Guyana needs to apply grants received from the EU, and get more if necessary, to get the sugar workers help in transition to other occupations. 

 

This can include 99 year leases on farm lands, with options to buy at below market rates, once they prove that they are efficfient farmers.

 

Why focus on a product with declining demand, when the world is moving to food scarcity?

 

Welfare is a bad idea.  A transitional safety net is always better.

I THINK that sugar might be a NET foreign exchange earner and that's why they might want to keep the estates open.  Anyway sugar workers are state workers just like any public sector worker only that they have to do manual labor. So if we are willing to give public sector employees raises there is absolutely no reason why sugar workers should not be fairly compensated on the same basis that the public sector raises were given.  I say 50% raise for everyone, fuget about the state of the economy we gun just keep borrowing.

 

 

According to GAWU sugar workers make US$500/month.  You would never have made the same demands for bauxite workers. 

 

Guymine was sold and over 80% of the workers lost their jobs, and were left to their own devices, with cheaper electricity being the only concession.

 

So why not sugar workers?  Because they are Indian, so you can empathize with them?

 

Should other state workers see their pay reach this? Even nurses and teachers do not earn this much.

 

Aside from senior ministers and the VPs who got a 50% salary increase?

 

Guysuco already has a bloated payroll.  If sugar workers wish more, then more labor intensive methods need to be used, with some workers losing their jobs.

Ramsammy was the guy who coordinated a national program to prevent sugar warders children from killing themselves.

He rass was more interested in front page news glorifying his photograph, than saving young lives.

 

He has little value with sugar workers, to speak on their behalf.

Jagdeo with his nasty and vindictiveness is still in control, even with Komal Chand.    

AH that would be for the month dey wuking IF your quote is correct.  They doan wuk all year and get fed 3 free square meals like some.

like many of the loudmouths here, this VVP character has nothing proper/responsible to contribute - settling for stupidness, un-reason, vindictiveness and score-settling tribal bile

 

smh

PNC man redux syfh nah who cares.

i rather think that being a "PNC man" is way better than stumbling thru late middle age as wan ignorant, horing antiman carrying jagdeo wata

 

no?

Yuh can be dat too if yuh wan, jagdeo might treat you tenderly 

uh huh, an invite to join u . . . no thanks

 

enjoy

       
       
GAWU's Komal Chand stated that the canecutters make around $1.2 million annually which works out to US$500 a month for twelve months.

GAWU said they work for GY$1.2 million a year.  I assume that he knows what he is talking about.   Obviously they make enough money when they do work to allow them to save for periods when they don't.

 

Even when you account for this, they are clearly among the most advantaged working class Guyanese. GAWU now made them look like spoiled brats, almost as self absorbed as the Nagamootoo, senior ministers and the VPs.

Cane cutters do not work 12 months. They work 9 months. The next three they moonlight as rice/vegetable  farmers and fishermen

Without a basic realistic wage in the sugar industry, everything else is secondary.

 

The Union have a right to call for collective bargaining.

 

I was told that Malcolmn Harripual who is the deputy head of the SPY Agency was seen monitoring the movements of Union leaders on the estates?

 

Hmmm!

 

We going back to that shit?  That happened in Burnham days right?

The period ahead will be extremely sensitive on the sugar belt.

why do you call for a "realistic" wage and not one that is fair or equitable or sustainable?

 

this is not about your personal shit with Malcolm Harripaul or anyone else

 

this is about the future of an industry the PPP has bungled and destroyed with politics and greed, and left double digit thousands of workers in deep jeopardy

 

try act responsible for a change

 The quote is correct. They work 9 months a year. No one gets free meals from anyone in guyana. We we do not have a social welfare safety net. Even the poor pensioners get only 17k a month and that is if the horrible accounting system in NIS agrees with them. Brazzington refused to accept 125 million in dividends due the NIS from the Berbice River company and that could be a pretty penny in these old folks pocket.

 

We have had horrible governments for our entire existence. We cannot nit pick on each other because that is how the elites win. Note when GUYMINE was sold it first went to  OMAI for 4 million US. Four years later it was sold to BOSAI for 45 million! Ramator  sat on OMAI board when this happened. Not a damn thing was ever done in Linden to aid the workers there who were thrown to the winds...no one give them one meal.

 

Meanwhile Banshilin hauls 500 containers of unhewn hardwoods a month from the region with no value added industry set up. Note Amazon sells wamara plank 15 by 18 inches for 500 dollars. Purple heartproducts abound and all of which we could make in our own damn country. We hardly make 14 million each year on these woods.

 

Note the Chinese rents their pandas to the US for more than that each year and that is recurring. I think they have between 12 to 15 pandas and they get a million per in rental fees plus a cut on panda products as trademark benefits.

 

It is the scope of our exploitation that makes it absolutely abhorrent to insist that "They doan wuk all year and get fed 3 free square meals like some". This is the heart of our injustice to each other. We fail to empathize with the horrible way some are treated and because we feel kinship to others we stand with them. We are Guyanese and educated ones at that and should not let these things mediate our desire to make our country a better place.

The Union, need to take into consideration the work to be done to resurrect this industry. It is already subsidized and it is the rest of the people who pay up the six billion. Do you think they should say close the bitch down? What we need is a united effort to rehabilitate this industry and it will mean downsizing however much the Granger administration may not want it. That is the only solution because it is too far down the rabbit hole.