GuySuCo’s performance indicators I

Introduction

In last week’s column on the sugar industry I had ended with the presentation of a table on GuySuCo’s expenditure on two key items, namely, “employment costs” and “materials and services” for the years, 1990, 1995 and the decade of the 2000s. The 1990 data was intended to indicate the situation as it existed just prior to the takeover of the government by the PPP/C administration.

The 1995 data showed a similar situation early on in the life of the new government. The 2000s data further revealed the pattern of