Guyana’s sugar industry set for take-off with new management changes

Jan 26, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,

Everyone is talking about what is happening in the sugar industry, and even moreso, the son of the late Dr. Jagan, Cheddi (Joey) Jagan Jr., in a recent letter in the SN, on 24th January, 2009, jumped on the bandwagon to further criticise the work of the Government.

As a citizen of this country, who has served even in the times of Dr. Cheddi Jagan and would have lived through the harsh conditions of the 70’s and 80’s, I must say that the fight that was launched by Dr. Jagan is now being realized, and that those harsh days are over.

We know the old saying – “talk is cheap”. We also know that not everything you hear is true. Some of these comments by Jagan Jnr. bear a lot of fallacy in them. I wonder who is doing his research to know that the private sector is not integrally involved in the sugar industry.

Only last year, the National Cane Farming Committee was revitalized, and this has sought to work with the private cane farmers to enhance production and make the factories more efficient and productive. For a person like me, who came from the worst days of the industry, it is only fair for me to follow what is happening through the media. And some things I read in that article are in no way what are happening.

I must commend the President and Minister Robert Persaud for their very strategic move in re-shuffling and totally shaking up the upper management of the Guyana Sugar Corporation.

This was long awaited. Recently, I heard His Excellency, President Bharat Jagdeo, at the opening of the new branch of the New Building Society, where he spoke on the means and ways of reducing crisis in countries such as ours; and I was impressed, especially when he said, and I quote: “We have to ensure that we deliver the best service that we can at the lowest, most effective cost, and this is one way we may, through increasing productivity, ride out some of the impact of the crisis”.

In conclusion, I wish to point out that the industry has a far way to go, and we, as Guyanese, must support this drive, and work and strive together to make this country prosper in every conceivable way.

Carlos De Barros

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