US$12.5M sugar packaging plant seen as industry lifeline

- Jagdeo says sweeter days ahead under Ramotar gov’t

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Sugar would be dead without the political commitment of the administration, President Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday at the opening of the new packaging plant at Enmore, where he predicted a brighter future for the industry under a Donald Ramotar-led government.

Jagdeo talked up the PPP’s presidential candidate before a capacity crowd of mostly sugar workers, saying his record as a long-serving…..


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