Comments on: Strike hits sugar again

By: Caesar Agustus

Caesar Agustus — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:16:00 +0000

Hope you are not working there Griot.

By: Bella

Bella — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:39:26 +0000

Close the estates, then they strikers and GAWU will realise that even 1% is better than nothing. Remember yo reap waht you sow. All of the folks who helped to make GAWU as strong as they are are dead and gone. They created GAWU to stifle LFS Burnham when the PNC was in pwoer and now they have turned on you. Close the estates let them suffer

By: Daze Tante

Daze Tante — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:20:13 +0000

I LOVE THIS!!!and in WHOSE INTEREST is the GAWU suppose to REPRESENT? Labourers! Factory-Workers! GET ON YOUR HIND LEGS! Show the DICTATOR/SLAVE-DRIVERS who is THE BOSS! If you guys do not TOIL the fields THERE WOULD BE NO GuySuCo…..”STRIKE FU YU RITE” if dem PLAYIN MAD show dem dat U MO MAD…..SATL AN RICE/SHINE RICE doan KILL! Rose Hall Boys! JOIN D MAGA-MAN JOIN ELDORADO an he broda Pepsi an gu HUNT up Calabash Creek, gu go ketch fish…and a hope dee kichen gaden get someting. YOU WILL SURVIVE!!! MAY THE GOOD LORD BE WITH YOU ALL!

By: Griot

Griot — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:50:32 +0000

Hahahahahahahahahahahahah

By: Griot

Griot — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:47:59 +0000

Y’assuman,
The big picture is that Guysuco ill-positioned to take advantange of the current world market prices.

Guysuco has NOT lost its preferential market in the EU. The PRICE paid in that market has been significantly reduced. Given that Guysuco’s strategic plan called for them to be producing about 4-500000 tonnes per annum @ around 11c/lb and they consistently struggle to produce 1/2 this amount (at almost twice the price), the only way to meet that “world market demand” is to sacrifice the preferential markets.

The “world market” for sugar is a RESIDUAL market where the usual state of affairs is that excess production is dumped for whatever price is obtained. The CURRENT demand as you state is strong. What will it be next year? or the year after? On August 16 of this year, I quoted the Executive Director of the International Sugar Organisation the 84 member states of which account for 82% of world sugar production and 66% of world consumption.

”
The world sugar market will probably return to balance in the year ending September 2011 because of a rebound in production in India and other importing countries,
”

When the price drops out of the world market (and it will someday) will Guysuco run back to the EU like we did with our caricom neighbors when the OCT route for rice collapsed in the mid-late nineties?

By: GUYFLAG

GUYFLAG — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:54:36 +0000

SAMANTHA, YOUV’E EITHER GOT YOUR DECIMAL POINTS IN THE WRONG POSITION, BY MISTAKE, OR THROUGH IGNORANCE,… I’LL GIVE YOU A CHANCE TO CORRECT SAME…

By: Caesar Agustus

Caesar Agustus — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:45:01 +0000

Everyone who goes on strike should be fired. This is he only way to stop this economic disruption.

By: samantha

samantha — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:53:00 +0000

They should check on the managers salaries ( over $200,000.00 per month)
The junior staff work for less $250.00 per day, which cannot pay their bus fare to go to work.
It cannot even pay the grocery or even sweets for the children as what the late pressy said will happen

By: brain

brain — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:41:10 +0000

strike its time people make a real living u work hard for nothing the new order is to strike ppp encourage that to the pnc how u like it now

By: Truth

Truth — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:42:30 +0000

The Unions have a right to strike. However, they should also understand that the losses in the fields will affect the short term viability of the industry. At the same time it appears that the management of the corporation may be playing hardball with these hardworking people.

Any sugar company in the Caribbean that survives beyond 2013 will be extremely profitable.

By: john brown

john brown — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:31:48 +0000

gawu don’t have to look at anything. they are doing the right thing. keep the pressure on gawu sugar workers have families too.

By: Blackrattlesnake

Blackrattlesnake — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:15:21 +0000

Diversify….. and also start producing ethanol like Brazil…..and begin the conversion to flex fuel uses.

By: Carl

Carl — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:06:40 +0000

The chickens are coming home to roost. It is widely believed and accepted that the PPP encouraged sugar workers to burn canefields during the Burnham era. The obvious intent was to destabilize the economy. Now that the PPP is in office, the sugar workers are attempting to destabilize the economy.
Hey, you reap what you sow.

Anyway, I urge the sugar workers to return to work for the good of themselves and of our nation.

By: Touchau

Touchau — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:33:43 +0000

GAWU should be fighting the government to diversify the economy to help create better and more secured jobs for its members in an “economy of the future”. Stop fooling the sugar workers – sugar can only give us so much and for so long.
Are we waiting to wake up one morning to find that the industry has collapsed and thousands of people are suddenly thrown on the bread line?

By: yasuman71

yasuman71 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:27:49 +0000

Guysuco only recently lost its long-held European Union preferential market. Current demand for sugar in the world market is strong in the face of EU output cutback and production shortfall in India. According to the Indian Sugar Mills Association, “World production is now expected to be 4.274 mln tonnes lower than world consumption as against 3.626 mln tonnes projected in November.” So, there is currently a strong demand for sugar in the international market. Guyanese sugar workers should be busy producing more to meet that demand. This is not the time to strike. This is the time for GAWU to look at the big picture.

By: BORAPORK: GUYANA NEEDS DELIVERANCE

BORAPORK: GUYANA NEEDS DELIVERANCE — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:21:52 +0000

Grin and bear it. In 2006 you stupidly put your “X” besides the cup while many other Guyanese voted for some change. Like sheep you continue to be easily led. Keep bleating. Eventually you’ll start braying.

By: tkhemraj

tkhemraj — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:00:43 +0000

The workers shall suffer low wages because sugar is not very valuable in global markets. Then there is the price erosion owing to EPA. However, the root of the sufferings of the masses rests with the PPP and the Jagdeo Administration. It was well known (by the early 1990s) that WTO rules would come into conflict with Lome and the sugar deal with Europe and the preferential prices are no longer sacred. They never planned alternative avenues that could today place the industry in better position.

The current CEO was given a bad hand and I feel terrible for him. His job is to secure an accounting profit for Guysuco. But accounting profits do not factor in the economic alternatives with potentially higher returns. It’s not Mr. Hannoman’s job to make those decisions in the realm of alternatives. That’s the PPP and the givernment, which have failed the masses.

That said the workers should return to work and save the industry. A little income (which shall keep them in penury) is still better than none.

By: Raj

Raj — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:52:07 +0000

Correction. GAWU behaviour is ridiculous. Where are the sane trade union voices to knock some sense in Komal head. The sugar workers throwing tantrums and behaving like spoil brats. They know Guysuco cannot afford to pay. Like bad indulgent parents the PPP will quiet their ‘Dennis the menace’ by giving them what they want. I’d stay the PPP is getting its just dessert and people should just sit back and watch them implode. But the ones suffering are the tax payers who have to belly up to pay the overwhelming sugar debts while their sector of employment and the country fall apart. Its sickening how politics and political ignorance is destroying Guyana.

By: Sam(canada)

Sam(canada) — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:36:08 +0000

I would support the Trade unions. Get ready to start back the importation of sugar again. No more cane root kickney.

By: true guyanese(luv mi kuntry an d people dem).

true guyanese(luv mi kuntry an d people dem). — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:27:26 +0000

why is it the sugar workers listening to these rich union heads and go on strike causing there family’s to suffer the hard ship…….i know there conditions are bad but they can work while talks goes on…strike only cause suffering to there family’s and the country as a hold…it is better to have a dollar in you pocket than to have none..what about if guysuco decide to close down will the union give them any thing no…remember the holiday’s coming up and family’s need to have a nice time….i am not saying work under bad conditions…all i am saying the unions don’t suffer you as the workers who suffer as the union find all type of silly things to find fault and complain as ask the workers to strike so they seems as the big horses championing the workers cause….happy jumbie day to all.