17 suggestions for the transformation of GUYSUCO

Jul 25, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor;
As a follow-up to our last letter, we would like to offer additional suggestions regarding GUYSUCO:
1. First and foremost, replace all those top executives who presided over the deterioration of the corporation over the years and whose thinking has been embedded in ethanol production, sugar packaging, aquaculture, cattle rearing, etc. They have all outlived any useful purpose and are just warming seats and accumulating enormous fat in their pockets.
2. Sell some of the troubled malfunctioning/non-functioning Skeldon Factory units as scrap metal to Chinese and others in the recycling business so that this national festering sore can be excised from GUYSCO.
3. Appoint an Executive Chairman, restructure the Board of Directors, appointing the General Manager/CEO of each estate as a Board Executive Director. In this way, the Board will gain hands-on information on the happenings of each estate at any point in time.
4. Appoint one Non-Executive Director from the sugar unions.
5. Urgently, keep politicians in dark rooms where they can dream dreams and see visions. Hold the Board of Directors accountable for the Corporation’s performance.
6. Have each estate execute staff succession plans. Implement and audit these each year.
7. Pursue relationship marketing at functional and strategic levels.
8. Develop strategic partnerships with companies, businesses, etc that produce value-added products using sugar and its by-products.
9. Cease all colonial type services offered to Executive Staff at each estate- free housing, guard services, school children transportation, payment for utilities, etc.
10. Sell or rent to Executive Staff houses they occupy, or to members of the public.
11. Integrate the medical centre at each estate with adjacent government hospitals and clinics.
12. Redesign all offices with cubicles so that high borders are removed. Have managers type their own correspondence, bag their own letters, etc and reassign support staff to relevant productive sectors.
13. Employ more multi-skilled staff at all levels and redesign jobs to cater for these changes.
14. Employ retired experienced employees at lower-level jobs as training facilitators, advisors, etc.
15. In a civilized culture, one generation must replace another. Therefore, stop putting retired persons in substantive positions and let there be succession.
16. Start diversifying agricultural production on low yielding land.
17. Lease or sell uncultivated lands to farmers for cultivation of non-traditional crops, giving first preference to former field operations staff.
If GUYSUCO is serious about doing better, all matters should be put in the public domain and it must be recognized that no one has a monopoly of wisdom. As such, people with relevant knowledge and technical know-how must be invited to contribute their two-cents to treating the man-made diseases affecting the Corporation. Moreover, government should appoint more competent and experienced people to oversee agricultural activities at GUYSUCO and the country as a whole for there are too many misfits masquerading in the industry.
Doodnauth Singh
Executive Chairman-Jan and Joy Carew Education Centre

2 thoughts on “17 suggestions for the transformation of GUYSUCO”

Leslie Chin July 25, 2016 at 3:22 am

Sugar is being blamed for causing diabetes so the demand for sugar has fallen significantly around the world. Sugar production should be converted to ethanol production which has a high demand as a fuel. Brazil is successfully producing ethanol from sugar which is the primary fuel for motor cars. Gasoline is blended with ethanol in the US and Canada.
Surujpaul Rampersaud July 25, 2016 at 4:17 pm

We are still operating as if we are colony operating under ” Mercantilism” where we produce raw materials for the developed world. The problem is with our “so called scientists at UG”. They should have been proactive in the development of value added products and work to defend local products from the onslaught of attacks from the lobbying forces of the developed world. The demise of coconut is a typical example.
Molasses is being used as a stock feed so why can’t we convert molasses into pellets to be used. This is just one example.

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