US$12.5M sugar packaging plant seen as industry lifeline

The Enmore packaging plant (GINA photo)

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