The proposals from two foreign companies to run the troubled US$200M Skeldon sugar factory is the enhancement of an existing arrangement, Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud said yesterday.
Persaud made the statements at a media briefing amidst concerns raised about whether there was any tendering for a management contract to run the problem-plagued factory. He said that everyone recognizes that the factory is a complex, state-of-the-art, only one of its kind in this part of the world and it is also recognized that Guyana has not developed the local capability to manage it. Help is needed to develop local capability, he said.
“There are private sector companies in Guyana when they introduce new technology, new plants, and you go to
