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A campaign against Komal Chand

Jan 26, 2018 Letters

Dear Editor,
I checked all four of yesterday’s papers but only found it in the Guyana Times. I am referring to an article, clearly planted by people who want Komal Chand to go. The article said that it is time for the union president to demit office.
To observers of the Guyana political scene like me, it appears that Chand is being punished for not only attending a big sugar meeting with President Granger and his team last week, but for also praising the way the meeting went and the results that apparently flowed from it.
If I recall correctly, agreement was reached with government and the union to give a few hundred workers their full 100 percent severance payment. Others will be paid over time.
It appears that the PPP was not yet ready to abandon Guysuco as a political horse that it could flog to death so the relatively good package of news that government delivered to Chand and the GAWU was not of the type that the PPP wanted to hear at this time.
Therefore, it is no surprise then, that the Times headline screamed that “sugar workers call for Komal Chand to resign.”
By now, Mr. Chand should be wise to what is really up with this article that attacks him and who might be the intellectual authors hiding behind a series of anonymous quotes and interviews with alleged sugar workers.
No other paper has seen it fit and proper as yet to carry a story along the lines of the one in the
Times, but the long serving union boss should by now be aiming his thoughts to colleagues at Freedom House who are clearly unhappy with him engaging government on sugar and severance payments.
This is so because, maybe for the first time, since the fiasco with the Wales Estate closure and subsequent retrenchments, that government emerged from this with a red rose in its hand rather than the dirty end of a stick.
Mr. Chand should be well aware who are the people of power and influence at the Times.
He should be thinking that this could be the beginning of a campaign from the inside to get him out of union leadership going forward. .
Peter Joseph

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