Will the workers and the weather be constantly blamed?

Dec 28, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,

Our thanks go out to Minister Persaud for recognising our needs and rights and ordering GuySuCo to pay our paltry back pay before Christmas. Of course the management has issued a face saving release to cover their embarrassment.

A few questions still bother me and I would be grateful for the Minister’s response:

1. Is the CEO a part of the new local management team? Reports are that his contract is addressed to his UK address and he is being paid in Pounds Sterling. He may have been Guyanese by birth, but I think all linkages stop there.

2. Wasn’t the CEO’s contract signed as a post Booker Tate arrangement? As such should we claim that it was an “inherited” package?

3. Isn’t the CEO a relic of the same Booker Tate that we are so proud of having gotten rid of? After all, he was the Regional Director of Booker Tate for GuySuCo from 2003 to 2008, prior to taking up his present CEO job. Most importantly, as Regional Director, he was responsible for the management (or mismanagement) of GuySuCo, since the then CEOs, reported to him.

4. From the highs of averaging 320,000 tons production for 2002 to 2004, we have slipped to averaging 231,000 tons for the period 2008 to 2009. Should the workers be made the scapegoats for this drop in production? Is management not accountable to anyone?

5. Do you honestly believe that the “Turnaround Plan” can be achieved based on GuySuCo’s management performance of recent years? Or will the workers and the weather be constantly blamed?

Lall Singh

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