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He is insane and senile but I will still sue him for calling me a liar
Dear Editor,
Very few things totally flabbergast me and leave me speechless, the latter from Charles Sohan in Kaieteur News of February 1, 2016 “Tony Vieira’s Career in Sugar was/is a failure” did!
This has really gone far enough, it’s the umpteenth time that I have been accused of making the decision to close the Versailles factory. It is a lie and Sohan is therefore a liar. And I am seriously contemplating suing someone since this has got to stop once and for all.
Furthermore Sohan is a friend of mine he used to attend my Friday night sessions between 2009 to 2011 when he left and I in turn visited him at this one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn with the guest bed in the living room on one occasion, so he has to be going senile to write such a letter now. Furthermore he was told the truth more than once in our conversations, so I repeat Charles Sohan has to be going senile or insane and he should stop writing letters to the newspapers. My family did own the Versailles factory, but in 1956 we sold it to Bookers and in 1976 on Nationalization it became the property of GuySuCo and the state of Guyana.
The decision to close the Versailles factory was made by Harold Davis, Ray Wilkins and B. Chandra then Chairman and Directors of GuySuCo; in 1978 my father then Chairman of Versaillesand I were called to GuySuCo’s head office, then in Water Street, and were told that as of the 2nd crop of 1978 the factory will be closed. And that they were building a waterway between Versailles and Uitvlught for the Versailles canes to be taken to the Uitvlught factory to be ground. This waterway built by GuySuCo and operated by them, was an operational disaster and within 5 years Versailles was totally bankrupted. I had nothing to do with either the closure of the factory or the construction or operation of the waterway.
After I started my work in television, I continued to write on the industry during the years from 1992 to 2015 when we changed governments, and I consider that during all those years as the publisher of the Evening News and later [2001] in my commentaries when I was studying the day to day mismanagement of it by the PPP and reporting their mistakes to the public, I was in fact still in a manner of speaking working in the sugar industry, and no one can call my contribution during those years a failure. I have never made a forecast on GuySuCo which was wrong. I am asking the Kaieteur news to issue an apology to me on these false accusations by this man of unsound mind, or I will seek legal help in the matter.
Tony Vieira
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