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PPP/C calls on gov’t to release funds for GuySuCo

Jun 17, 2015 News

The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) in a press release yesterday called on the A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) administration to immediately make funds for GuySuCo available in the interest of “preserving the sugar industry.”
This, the party said, is its view after taking into concern “protection of workers’ rights, privilege and benefits” while ensuring that adequate steps are taken in ensuring the viability and sustainability of the sugar industry.
The party sought to remind that the PPP/C manifesto had contained a proposed injection of $20 Billion into the sugar industry, in order to safeguard workers welfare, jobs and restructuring the industry on a whole into a sustainable industry. This, the PPP/C said, was also aimed at meeting the current liabilities concerning the Workers’ Union and National Insurance Scheme (NIS).
“Although there was no budget for 2015, the PPP Civic Government sought through various mechanisms to ensure GUYSUCO received funding. The country would recall that the APNU+AFC actively sought to block every intervention to make these funds available. The PPP is reiterating its call to the Government to immediately release funds to GuySuCo, so the Corporation can meet its liability to workers, union and all other stakeholders. These liabilities were well-known to APNU+AFC at the Parliamentary Committee dealing with sugar,” the party said.
It concluded its statement by repeating its call to the Government to make the $20 Billion available, in order to “secure the interest of workers and the industry in making good their promise that sugar is too big to fail.”

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