GuySuCo needs all the help it can get yet it continues to ignore personnel who have considerable experience and knowledge

Jul 02, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,

My interest was piqued when I read in the June 30, 2022 Kaieteur News about GuySuCo procuring GAME tractors in favour of John Deere tractors. In my years with the sugar industry, I do not recall any Game tractors being utilised and I decided to ask my friends who are in GuySuCo about this machine as I have been away for some time.

I have learnt that Albion Estate maybe about a year ago for the first time ever got two of these tractors. My friends told me these tractors have hardly worked and right now are parked in the compound of Albion Estate. They said they find it puzzling that some team, which to their best knowledge, had no idea of the conditions within GuySuCo was asked to assess the Game and John Deere tractors and they deemed the Game to be superior. They added no GuySuCo personnel was invited to the examination yet inexplicably they shared with me all of a sudden Game is the chosen supplier.

They said that the company which manufactures Game tractors has said it was formerly known as Cameco. I did some research and found that Cameco was acquired ironically by John Deere in 1997. A simple Google search can confirm this. Additionally, my Google search led me to Game’s website and I saw the company marketing itself as staffed by former Cameco personnel. I have no reason to doubt them. But Editor, I recall the Cameco tractors in GuySuCo and their inefficient performance. I remember too Booker-Tate when they came in their wisdom discarded them in favour of the John Deere and New Holland tractors. Certainly, if these tractors were as good as GuySuCo now claims, then why Booker-Tate with all its expertise did not retain them. Obviously there has to be rhyme to the reason. Editor, GuySuCo needs all the help it can get yet it continues to ignore personnel who have considerable experience and knowledge. Rather a flash-in-the-pan individual who is clearly out of depths has decided to enter realms clearly unknown and outside their competence. I pray for GuySuCo and I now know why GAWU said the management needs a shakeup.

Yours faithfully,
Surendra Drepaul

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