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Mar 25, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
In this ‘silly season’ it seems that everyone has forgotten about the largest investment in our history, the Skeldon Estate. The newspapers are so busy with politics that they did not even notice that Skeldon Estate did not produce one pound of sugar until Tuesday March 17, 2015.
All the brilliant sunshine we had in January and February was just wasted for no reason. In all my years working with Guysuco I don’t think any estate has ever started so late. It is pure madness.
Management gets a brainwave and decides on Thursday (12th of March, 2015) afternoon around 2:00pm that they had to burn canes. The factory had no trial run, there was no pre-crop brief as is always done, and everyone was in the dark and unprepared. The 400-plus punts of cane burnt did not reach the factory and start grinding until 72 hours pass. Every schoolboy knows that you cannot eat three-day-old cane because it’s no good all the juice dries out. So how was Skeldon estate planning to make sugar with it is a mystery.
Then the factory breaks down umpteen times, since Saturday only about 90 tons of sugar has been produced at a TC/TS of 22.  Who is paying for all this spoil canes is another mystery? From the reports from the unions it looks like the estate, after cutting young canes, for two crops in a row, does not have enough canes to cut this crop. Things are so bad that management is planning to cut canes left over from 2012 and 2013. You can make a lot of things with two and three-year-old canes but not sugar.
It’s high time that the management at Skeldon estate be held accountable for their failures instead of blaming everything on the factory and the weather.
Skeldon estate has the most famous manager ever. The only problem is that everyone is lying on the poor chap. The worker he dismissed, Steven Daniels, and caused a countrywide strike, was telling lies on him. The Kaieteur News telling a set a lies on the man and the Police also lying on the man and making false charges.
This manager is accountable to no one and is above the law. He has contacts in high places. He may very well cause the PPP the elections if he remains in Guysuco.
Besham Persaud

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