GAWU and the PPP contributed to the crises in the sugar industry

Jun 29, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
I resigned my position at GuySuCo since I do not want to be associated with disaster. Also the fact is that I have never been a hypocrite and cannot just start to praise a system which is unworthy of praise, nothing has been done to make me change my mind that GuySuCo is still a very inefficient and incompetent organization. Just because they are paying me will not make me see it any other way, and so refusing to accept it, the executive found me as difficult to work with, as I did them.
In fact, for the changes which must come soon, I think that Paul Bhim would make a better CE for GuySuCo today, since he is far more open to suggestions and new concepts. Long ago I wrote about him, that he was removed as CE by the PPP because he had the guts to say that there was “no cane in the fields” which he inherited, in other words the man is not a hypocrite, whatever else he might be, and he understands the current financial situation at GuySuCo.
Years ago when GuySuco had a dairy farm at Versailles they brought an expert from the US to advise them, since it was not economical, in driving him around the farm, he asked if they were not afraid to have all of the people he was seeing walking around the farm, he was then told that they were workers he then asked how many workers they had and was told over 100 and he said that a farm of that size in the US would employ 7 or 8 people. It’s happening again. Three times before they have attempted to diversify GuySuCo and failed, and they will fail again. In fact they already have.
If we agree that GuySuCo cannot diversify GuySuCo, we are left with a new organization which will do it and the sooner we do it the better. I know that the PPP and the union are salivating at what I am writing here, but frankly it is my opinion that the union and the PPP helped, in no small way, to create this problem, and are not part of the solution, any new entity should not start off with the massive handicaps this will perpetrate.
I also want to say that since December 2016 I was convinced that Aquasol was the wrong consultant for us, and I suggested that they be fired; they do not understand our conditions, have questionable motives and they are nearly a year late with the feasibility study and actually there is no indication that we will see it soon. It is another reason why I resigned.
I won’t be able to work with them. I am predicting now that even though aquaculture will be an excellent diversification for GuySuCo, the way it is being approached will lead to failure. Recently Christopher Ram asked me on “Plain Talk” if I would like to explain myself to the Economic Services Committee of the Parliament and I said that I would welcome it.
Tony Vieira

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