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GuySuCo was poorly managed by the PPP
Dear Editor,
Recent statements by the President to pump $20 billion into GuySuCo suggest that the PPP is desperate and is trying to buy votes with more of its empty promises and with the taxpayers’ money. If APNU+AFC coalition wins the election, It will find an empty treasury and zero funds in the foreign reserves. Pumping more money into GuySuCo and having the same board of directors and CEO seems to be a waste of the taxpayers’ money. It will not help that troubled sugar agency because of its incompetent and unqualified senior staff comprised mostly of party loyalists.
It is our hope that a new political directorate such as the APNU+AFC Coalition will resist the temptation to pack the new board with party supporters/loyalists which has been the corrupt practice of successive PPP governments. But if the Coalition continues the PPP norm, it will get the country no closer to remedying the 22 years of decay by the PPP that has set the sugar industry back in decades and on the verge of total collapse.
The leaders of the APNU+ AFC coalition are very serious about the growth and development of the country; particularly about making the sugar industry profitable again and making Guyana the place of choice to live, work, raise families, and do business. They will not embrace the kind of bankrupt mental thinking of the Jagdeo/Ramotar regime towards development and nation building which is to put their interests first and those of the country and the people last.
They will not maintain a corrupt police force and allow misfits to continue to work in senior management positions. The leaders of the Coalition are original and practical thinkers. They will not hire unqualified and inexperienced party loyalists over qualified and experienced persons.
Fifteen years of poor thinking by the Jagdeo/Ramotar regime to hire unqualified PPP loyalists over qualified persons is part of the problem that has stifled the development of the country and has led to the creation of massive corruption, high unemployment especially among the youths and a high crime rate.
The consequence is that Guyana has been paying a heavy price for this warped thinking from its inept leaders, because many government departments and state agencies have been wasting the taxpayers’ money, which is made even worst in the country’s current economic circumstances. In the case with GuySuCo, the Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal was never serious about making it profitable because they had several opportunities to do so many years ago by recruiting qualified, and experienced persons who have demonstrated that they are patriotic rather than politically partisan.
And, given all that has happened at GuySuCo over the years, the AFC+APNU Coalition if elected must revamp not only GuySuCo but the NIS, GPL and all other government agencies and departments. It has to be a fresh start from the get go.
And new appointees should not be controversial or be under a cloud of suspicion.
Dr. Asquith Rose, Chandra Deolall, Dr. Merle Spencer-Marks.
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