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Bitter Sugar – The PPP’s parting gift to APNU/AFC and Guyanese

Jun 07, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
Congratulations to APNU/AFC for defeating the PPP in the May 11th general elections and thereby saving Guyana from further economic ruin and racial polarization. While the victory was by no means easy, compared to what the government has thus far uncovered, winning the election may seem like the easy part; now comes the hard part, governing.
Daily disclosures of fraud, mismanagement and the overall depraved indifference with which the PPP conducted the people’s business which has been revealed since the APNU/AFC coalition took office, has been nothing short of breathtaking.  But what I find most troubling is the seeming “flat-footedness” in the government’s reaction to the shenanigans of the now fired CEO of GUYSUCO Raj Singh, and his board of directors.  GUYSUCO being the country’s largest employer and also the biggest beneficiary of government bailouts over the past few years, it seemed that the new administration was not prepared for the obfuscation, deceit and potential for manufactured crises from the GUYSUCO board in general and the CEO in particular, who was a declared candidate for the PPP who are refusing to concede the elections.
That Raj Singh and the badly compromised board of GUYSUSCO directors has now been rightfully removed, the government must deal with harvesting the bitter sugar that the PPP has bequeathed them as if it were an Improvised Explosive Device (IED). It will take more than experts and forensic audits to safely detonate this ticking time bomb that is the most corrupt, inefficient and resource depleting corporation.  Prosecution and convictions must surely be a part of the remedy. The hard decision of mechanization and restructuring has to be made and the quicker the better. Make no mistake, jobs will be lost and the PPP and their willing accomplice GAWU the sugar workers union, will do everything to undermine the government from saving this venerable industry.
Even more troubling is GAWU’s president Komal Chand, who is the embodiment of a living breathing conflict of interest.  That he’s been the head of the largest workers union and whose sole job was to lookout for workers interest; that duty was seemingly placed on the bottom of the priority list while he shilled for the PPP/administration as a parliamentarian and executive member of the then ruling party.  He was essentially part of management while feigning existence as the head of the bargaining unit.  He is therefore placed in the center of the maelstrom that surrounds the sugar industry and figuratively drove the GUYSUCO truck into the ditch.  He was never a fair advocate for his workers while being a member of the PPP hierarchy and to claim shock and dismay about the finances of the corporation and the funds in the workers credit union is intellectually dishonest. Sugar workers should ask for a “do over” and elect a new president, one that’s not politically aligned or pledges fealty to any political party.
Nigel Jason

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