Agriculture minister pledges to restructure GuySuCo’s management

Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha has stated that management at the various GuySuCo estates will be restructured and that he intends to work towards the sugar industry reclaiming its place as one of the country’s major foreign exchange earners.

Mustapha made these remarks yesterday during several outreaches yesterday in Region Five, where he addressed sugar workers. “Very shortly we will be having a new board of directors for GuySuCo. We are looking at Guysuco to improve management and we want to form a partnership between workers and management and we want to diversity the activity in Guysuco so we can make it more profitable,” he said.

At the outreach in Bath, West Coast Berbice, sugar workers complained of management issues at the estate, which prompted Mustapha to commit to a restructuring of the management team at the various estates.

Guyana's Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha has announced that management of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO) will undergo extensive reshuffling with a new board of directors to be installed shortly. We sincerely hope that e the new board would not see political appointments and square pegs in round holes as was done under the previous PPP government. Each appointee must bring required skill sets, experiences and knowledge that would contribute to turning around the industry.

We need a highly competent, effective, no nonsense finance minister. I can’t think of who that will be. Any ideas.

The MAKING OF SUGAR.
It is made in the field. It has a history of exploitation. There must be realistic options going forward. In the meantime, how many bosses to a cane utter?