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Is jealousy at play at GuySuCo?

Nov 10, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

Kaieteur News – Reference is made to remarks made by Vice President Jagdeo on management of GuySuCo and termination of experienced staff (Nov 2). The VP said management will be strengthened.
Editor, it is a fact that several senior management staff at the company have not been able to function under Singh’s leadership. Beside those forced out, one recalls that Mr. Vishnu Panday also walked away from Skeldon Estate last January complaining he cannot function under Sase Singh leadership style and lack of competence in the industry. Panday stated in a published letter very early on that Singh is unfit for the job. Government did not listen. Why? And why let go a man like Panday who knows everything about sugar cultivation and harvesting than almost everyone else in the country.
Is jealousy at play at GuySuCo? The CEO got rid of everyone who is more competent and qualified than him. Why force out a person who was more qualified than the CEO?
Has the board or the Minister or the Vice President approved of the high-handed management at the company? So many competent skilled personnel have been allowed to go at GuySuCo. The latest is the person with 25 years’ experience and two Masters Degrees including in management and engineering that was chased out of the office. This gentleman, much more qualified than Singh, well rounded, au fait with all aspects of GuySuCo with excellent human relations skills, is such an asset to the company. Would he not make a better CEO than Mr. Singh? He was forced to resign because he allegedly refused to follow instructions that would violate tendering rules.
Another competent management staff, an American-trained mechanical engineer, perhaps the best at the company, a senior engineer with twenty years’ experience, has not been allowed to function. He has been banished from meetings. Similarly, to varying degrees, such attitude applied to much of the senior staff.
Government has injected $billions into GuySuCo under Singh’s leadership but nothing to show for it. Is he the right person for that transformative position? It appears that the Minister’s hands are tied on Singh because he has not disciplined him. Long before his remarks on management style, the VP is widely known to want to make changes at that government corporation which has been the backbone of the PPP political strength for the last 70 years. When will the VP act?
Yours truly,
Budhram Singh

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