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GuySuCo aiming for new 55,000 ton white sugar plant at Albion – GAWU

11/24/2019 – 12:20 am

The GAWU-GuySuCo meeting

By Stabroek News – November 23, 2019

GAWU today said that GuySuCo has told it that it is planning for a new 55,000-tonne white sugar plant at Albion. The sugar union said this was disclosed by GuySuCo at a wide-ranging meeting on November 20, 2019

A statement by GAWU follows:

After more than a year of seeking to meet the GuySuCo about its plans to engender the viability of the miniaturized sugar industry, the GAWU was finally able to receive a presentation from the Corporation on November 20, 2019. The existence of a plan came to light following President David Granger’s address to the National Assembly in October, 2018. At that time, the President had disclosed that a plan was being developed. Continue reading →

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Guyana: Jagdeo slams GAWU President’s position on sugar talks with govt + Video

01/27/2018 – 9:23 pm

Jagdeo slams GAWU President’s position on sugar talks with govt

Posted by: Denis Chabrol – Demerara Waves – January 27, 2018

Komal Chand – GAWU

General Secretary of the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo on Saturday publicly rejected positive statements by the President of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), Komal Chand about talks with President David Granger.

While Jagdeo insisted that the PPP “has no rift” with GAWU, he appeared to send a strong signal that he would not mind the now aged Chand and other union elders removed. “We will support the union there. You have a lot of good, strong, young, bright leaders of GAWU who will have a great future in building that union and keeping it relevant,” he said. Continue reading →

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Guyana: Proposals floated to sell off several sugar estates – talks begin

01/02/2017 – 12:03 am

Guyana: Proposals floated to sell off several sugar estates, shed non-core operations

Posted by: Denis Chabrol in – Demerara Waves – December 31, 2016

GUYSUCO’S FUTURE: Top officials of GuySuco and government ministers meeting with high-level representatives of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) and the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP).

Proposals to sell off a number of estates of the bankrupt state-owned Guyana Sugar Corporation and shed non-core operations like drainage and health services were Saturday shared with the unions and the opposition People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC). Continue reading →

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Read the Riot Act to those PPP-affiliated bureaucrats who are undermining the Government – By David Hinds

06/25/2016 – 12:12 am

Read the Riot Act to those PPP-affiliated bureaucrats who are undermining the Government

Dr. David Hinds

By David Hinds

SINCE losing power, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has been hammering the new Government on alleged discrimination of persons in the Government system who are known to be PPP members and supporters.

The point-man for this campaign is former president, Donald Ramotar. Mr. Ramotar has been trying to proverbially ‘suck cane and blow whistle’ at the same time. He has argued that the Government has been going specifically after African Guyanese PPP members and supporters; then, in the same breath, he has charged the Government with ethnic cleansing of Indian Guyanese from the Public Service. In the June 18, 2016 edition of the Guyana Times, he complained about ethnic cleansing at GuySuCo, and listed nine persons — all Indian Guyanese — whom he claims were either “dismissed, asked to resign, or pressured to resign.” Continue reading →