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The PPP’s policies combine to make $5000 per day unlivable for many Guyanese
Dear Editor,
Kaieteur News – GUYSUCO’s chief executive officer in another section of the media on Sunday July 06/25 edition sought to clarify that the corporation’s problems went beyond poor wages and salaries.
Observing the decline in labour in the agricultural sector globally, he went on to point out that wages of Guyana’s sugar workers were among the highest globally.
Mr. Paul Cheong cannot however misunderstand that the PPP’s massive annual budgets coupled with government ministers’, for example Irfaan Ali’s investment in poultry production, combined to drive up food prices on the one hand, and strategically limit the much needed investment and expansion of crops and livestock nationally, particularly in rural areas and towns such as Parika, Charity, Corentyne, Linden, to keep poultry (Mr. Ali’s products) and other food prices rising. These ultimately combined to make those very same wages of G$4,000-G$5,000/day he points to unlivable for many Guyanese. All of this is beyond the point that GuySuCo has long ago become globally uncompetitive, beyond recovery, and has for some time been maintained as the PPP’s voting farm come election time.
Poverty and insufficiency are not a new phenomenon in rural communities which I have maintained have been government-sponsored. Consider for example if either the PPP or PNC administrations had embarked on expansive national agricultural programmes aimed at dramatically increasing output of chicken, beef, pork and other agricultural crops fifteen or twenty years ago. Rural communities for one would have gained a strong, stable, growing economic footing, means of income that would have virtually seen them out of poverty. Prices would have remained low due to the increase in output of agricultural products. Our agricultural output would most definitely have made it into the Caribbean also, another strong source of demand, and foreign revenue for our rural communities. But that was not to be, and probably never will be under either the PPP or PNC. Because after fifty, sixty years of success conning Guyanese with their economic plans, they aren’t going to change because of one letter writer.
Yours Faithfully,
Craig Sylvester
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